Psamăthe

, one of the Nereides, mother of Phocus by Æacus king of Ægin a. Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 12 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 11 , li. 398 .— Flaccus , ♦ bk. 1 , li. 364 .――A daughter of Crotopus king of Argos. She became mother of Linus by Apollo, and to conceal her shame from her father, she exposed her child, which was found by dogs and torn to pieces. Pausanias , bk. 1 , ch. 43 .――A fountain and town of Thebes. Flaccus , bk. 1 , li. 364 . ♦ Book reference omitted in text.