A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Αἷμος).

1. A son of Boreas and Oreithyia, was married to Rhodope, by whom he became the father of Hebrus. As he and his wife presumed to assume the names of Zeus and Hera, both were metamorphosed into mountains. (Serv. ad Virg. Aen. 1.321; Ov. Met. 6.87; Steph. Byz. s. vv.)