Its source is near Lilaea (Il. 2.522).
Legendary daughter of Cephisus, altar of the winds erected in her precinct at Delphi
Daughter of Cephisus, mother of Delphus
A fountain-nymph, the mother of Narcissus by Cephisus
Seven stades from Orchomenus is a temple of Heracles with a small image. Here is the source of the river Melas (black ), one of the streams running into the Cephisian Lake. The lake at all times covers the greater part of the Orchomenian territory, but in the winter season, after the south-west wind has generally prevailed, the water spreads over a yet greater extent of the territory.The Thebans declare that the river Cephisus was diverted into the Orchomenian plain by Heracles, and that for a time it passed under the mountain and entered the sea, until Heracles blocked up the chasm through the mountain. Now Homer too knows that the Cephisian Lake was a lake of itself, and not made by Heracles.
A grandson of Cephisus is fabled to have been changed by Apollo into this animal
Argunnos, a boy from Beotia, loved by Agamemnon; he was drowned in the river Cephisus
River of Phocis and Boeotia, its source, diverted by Herakles, father of Daulis, of Lilaea, and of Melaena.
Panyassis, work unknownI have heard another account, that the water was a gift to Castalia from the river Cephisus. So Alcaeus has it in his prelude to Apollo. The strongest confirmation of this view is a custom of the Lilaeans, who on certain specified days throw into the spring of the Cephisus cakes of the district and other things ordained by use, and it is said that these reappear in Castalia.
A celebrated river of Greece, that rises at the foot of Parnassus, close to Lilaea, and, after traversing the plains of Phocis and part of the Boeotian territory, empties into the Copaic Lake in the latter country. Hesiod compares it to a serpent, from the many sinuosities of its course. The modern name is Mauro Potamo. According to the poets, the son of the river-god Cephissus introduced the worship of the Graces into Boeotia, and hence the peculiar attachment which they were said to have for the waters of this stream.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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