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Leaneira or Leanira

the daughter of Amyclas and by Arcas the mother of Elatus and Apheidas. (The Theogony of Apollodorus III)

Other versions give the mother as either Meganeira, daughter of Croco, or the nymph Chrysopeleia (The Theogony of Apollodorus III).

From Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

From The Theogony of Apollodorus III

Areas had two sons, Elatus and Aphidas, by Leanira, daughter of Amyclas, or by Meganira, daughter of Croco, or, according to Eumelus, by a nymph Chrysopelia. These divided the land between them, but Elatus had all the power, and he begat Stymphalus and Pereus by Laodice, daughter of Cinyras, and Aphidas had a son Aleus and a daughter Stheneboea, who was married to Proetus.

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