Chryses

, the priest of Apollo, father of Astynome, called from him Chryseis . When Lyrne us was taken, and the spoils divided among the conquerors, Chryseis, who was the wife of Eetion the sovereign of the place, fell to the share of Agamemnon. Chryses, upon this, went to the Grecian camp to solicit his daughter’s restoration; and when his prayers were fruitle , he implored the aid of Apollo, who visited the Greeks with a plague, and obliged them to restore Chryseis. Homer , Iliad , bk. 1 , li. 11 , . ――A daughter of Minos. Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 1 .