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Deion reigned over Phocis and married Diomede,
daughter of Xuthus; and there were born to him a daughter, Asterodia, and sons, Aenetus,
Actor, Phylacus, and Cephalus, who married Procris, daughter of Erechtheus.1 But afterwards Dawn fell
in love with him and carried him off.
1 Compare Apollod. 2.4.7, Apollod. 3.15.1. As to the love of Dawn or Day for Cephalus, see Hes. Th. 986ff.; Paus. 1.3.1; Ant. Lib. 41; Ov. Met. 7.700-713; Hyginus, Fab. 189, 270.
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