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LEFYSTION (Mountain) LEVADIA
Charops, bright-eyed or joyful-looking, a surname of Heracles, under which he had a statue near mount Laphystion on the spot where he was believed to have brought forth Cerberus from the lower world. (Paus. ix. 34. Β§ 4.) There are also two mythical beings of this name. (Hom. Od. xi. 427; Hom. Hymn. in Merc. 194; Hygin. Fab. 181.)
Laphystius (Laphustios). A surname of Zeus, which was derived either from Mount Laphystius in Boeotia, or from the verb laphussein, to flee, so that it would be synonymous with phuxios: a third opinion is, that it signified " the voracious," in reference to the human sacrifices which were offered to him in early time. (Paus. i. 24.2, ix. 34.4.)
Laphystius. A surname of Dionysus, from the Boeotian mountain Laphystius, whence the female Bacchantes were called, in the Macedonian dialect, Laphystiae. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 1236)
They say that when Athamas was about to sacrifice here Phrixus and Helle, a ram with his fleece of gold was sent by Zeus to the children (at the mount Laphystius), and that on the back of this ram they made good their escape.
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