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and Argos in southern Greece. His daughters Byze, Melite, Maera and Anchiroe. The river itself appears in Pausanias' Description of Greece.Book 2, Chapter 34, section 6, quoted o
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Mythology

Erasinus only appearance in myth was recounted by

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in his ''Metamorphoses'', where he was mentioned as the father of the above daughters who received Britomartis when she fled from King

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of Crete.

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arrived in Argos from Phoenicia, entering into the company of the daughters of Erasinos, Byze, Melite, Maira, and Ankhirhoe (Anchirhoe)."

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Reference

, ''The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis'' translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992)
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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