Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Eurotas

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EURO′TAS (Εὐρώτας), a son of Myles and grandson of Lelex. He was the father of Sparte, the wife of Lacedaemon, and is said to have carried the waters, stagnating in the plain of Lacedaemon, into the sea by means of a canal, and to have called the river which arose therefrom after his own name, Eurotas. (Paus. iii. 1. § 2.) Apollodorus (iii. 10. § 3) calls him a son of Lelex by the nymph Cleochareia, and in Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v. Ταΰγετον) his mother is called Taygete. (Corap. Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. iv. 15, Ol. vi. 46, ad Lycoph. 886.) [L. S.]