Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Oreithyia 2.
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2. A daughter of Erechtheus and Praxithea. Once as she had strayed beyond the river Ilissus she was carried off by Boreas, by whom she became the mother of Cleopatra, Chione, Zetes, and Calais. (Apollod. iii. 15. §1, &c.; Apollon. Rhod. i. 215 ; comp. Plat. Phaedr. p. 194, ed. Heind. ; Schol. ad Odyss. xiv. 533.) [L. S.]