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| Daughter of Erysichthon (q.v., 2). She supported her famished father by employing the power to change herself into any form she pleased, the gift of her lover Poseidon. She let herself be sold in various forms, and then always returned to her father [Ovid, Met. viii 738-884]. | |
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