A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

2. A son of Cephalus and Eos, was carried off by Aphrodite, who appointed him guardian of her temple. (Hes. Th. 986.) Apooldorus (3.14.3) calls him a son of Tithonus, and grandson of Cephalus, and Pausanias (1.3.1) a son of Cephalus and Hemera.