Editing Epaphus (section)

=== Birth ===
The name/word Epaphus means "Touch". This refers to the manner in which he was conceived, by the touch of Zeus' hand.<ref>Aeschylus, ''Suppliant Women'' 315; Aeschylus, ''[[Prometheus Bound]]'' 850–852</ref> He was born in [[Euboea]], in the cave [[Boösaule]] according to [[Strabo]]<ref>[[Strabo]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D10%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D3 10.1.3]</ref> or according to others, in Egypt, on the river [[Nile]],<ref>Hyginus, ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#145 145]</ref> after the long wanderings of his mother. He was then concealed by the [[Korybantes|Curetes]], by the request of [[Hera]], but Io sought and afterward found him in [[Syria]] where he was nursed by the wife of the king of [[Byblos|Byblus]].<ref name=":1">Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.1.3 2.1.3]</ref>