Therapne

, or Terapne , a town of Laconia, at the west of the Eurotas, where Apollo had a temple called Phœbeum. It was but a very short distance from Lacedæmon, and, indeed, some authors have confounded it with the capital of Laconia. It received its name from Therapne, a daughter of Lelex. Castor and Pollux were born there, and on that account they were sometimes called Therapnæi fratres . Pausanias , bk. 3 , ch. 14 .— Ovid , Fasti , bk. 5 , li. 223 .— Silius Italic us , bk. 6 , li. 303 ; bk. 8 , li. 414 ; bk. 13 , li. 43 .— Livy , bk. 2 , ch. 16 .— Dionysius of Halicarna us , bk. 2 , ch. 49 .— Statius , bk. 7 , Thebaid , li. 793 .