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, Lamprus () was the son of Pandion from

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and father of

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Lamprus, who was from a good family but without any fortune, married Galatea and the couple was soon expecting. Lamprus wished for a son, and told his wife that if the baby turned out to be a girl, they would expose it. One day while he was tending to their flocks, Galatea gave birth to a girl but pitying her child she lied to Lamprus and told him she had had a son. Galatea named the child Leucippus ("white horse") and raised her as a boy for some years. But as Leucippus grew and hit puberty, her true sex became impossible to conceal anymore, and Galatea began fearing Lamprus's reaction should he find out the truth. She then prayed to the goddess

Leto In ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion, religion, Leto (; ) is a childhood goddess, the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe (Titaness), Phoebe, the sister of Asteria, and the mother of Apollo and Artemis.Hesiod, ''Theogony' ...

to change Leucippus into a real boy, and the goddess answered her prayers accordingly.

Antoninus Liberalis Antoninus Liberalis () was an Ancient Greek grammarian who probably flourished between the second and third centuries AD. He is known as the author of ''The Metamorphoses'', a collection of tales that offers new variants of already familiar myths ...

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as cited in Nicander's ''Metamorphoses''

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References

, ''The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis'' translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992)
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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