APHNEIUS

the giver of food a plenty, a surname of Ares, under which he had temple on mount Cnesius, near Tegea in Arcadia. Aerope, the daughter of Cepheus, became by Ares the mother of a son (Aeropus), but she died at the moment she gave birth to the child, and Ares wishing to save it, caused the child to derive food from the breast of its dead mother.