
ERATO
a nymph and the wife of Ares, by whom she became the mother of Elatus, Apheidas, and Azan. She was said to have been a prophetic priestess of the Arcadian Pan.
There are two other mythical personages of this name, the one a Muse and the other a Nereid. (Apollodorus i. , Theogony of Hesiod 247.) [L. S.]