Editing Lamia (section)

===Genealogy===
Lamia was the daughter born between King [[Belus (Egyptian)|Belus]] of Egypt and [[Lybie]], according to one source.{{Efn|Making her the granddaughter of [[Poseidon]]. Lybie is a personification of Libya.<!--Preexisting comments-->}}<ref name=scholium/><ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], 20.41.3-6, Scholia to Aristophanes, ''Wasps'' 1035; Commentary 37 to Heraclitus the Allegorist</ref>

According to the same source, Lamia was taken by Zeus to Italy, and that Lamos, the city of the man-eating [[Laestrygonians]], was named after her.<ref name=scholium/> A different authority remarks that Lamia was once queen of the Laestrygonians.{{Refn|name=scholios-theocritus|Scholium to Theocritus ''Idylls'' 15.40.{{sfnp|Ogden|2013b|p=98}}<ref name=johnston/>}}{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|The same scholium states that Mormo and [[Gello]] are equivalent to Lamia, therefore by transference Mormo is queen of the Laestrygonians, hence: {{harvp|Stannish|Doran|2013|p=118}}.}}{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|Horace makes a related joke, referring to the aforementioned Lucius Aelius Lamia the praetor as "Lamus", in this instance regarded as the founding figure of the city of the Laestrygonians.<ref>{{citation|last=Mulroy |first=D. |title=Horace's Odes and Epodes |publisher=University of Michigan Press |year=1994 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DotEVjzbSHcC&pg=PA86 |page=86|isbn=978-0472105311 }}</ref>}}