Isme'nus
(
*)Ismh/nos), a son of Asopus and Metope, from whom the Boeotian river Ladon was believed to have derived its name of Ismenus. (
Apollod. 3.12.6.)
The little brooks Dirce and Strophie, in the neighbourhood of Thebes, are therefore called daughters of Ismenus. (Callim.
Hymn. in Del. 77; comp. Euirip.
Bacch. 519;
Diod. 4.72.)
According to other traditions, Ismenus was a son of Amphion and Niobe, who when struck by the arrow of Apollo leaped into a river near Thebes, which was called Ismenus, after him. (
Apollod. 3.5.6; Plut.
de Fluv. 2.)
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