Son of Lucifer the Morning Star and father of Chione — a fierce warrior whose grief for his only daughter, slain by Artemis, drove Apollo to change him into the hawk that still terrifies every other bird.1
Ovid presents Daedalion as a man of violent courage, son of Lucifer who brings forth Aurora and is last to leave the sky — while his brother Ceyx loved peace, Daedalion loved war and subdued kings and nations. His daughter Chione was so beautiful that Apollo and Mercury both lay with her on one night; she bore Philammon to the sun-god and Autolycus to Mercury.2
When Chione boasted that she surpassed Diana in beauty and was slain for it, Daedalion could not be restrained from her pyre. He ran over the cliffs and fields like a madman until Apollo pitying him changed his body into a bird — the hawk, still bold in wars and harsh, that terrifies the doves of Thisbe.3
Ovid and Hyginus tell his grief and hawk-transformation but name no homeland polis — the terror of Thisbe's doves is metamorphic detail, not civic residence. Residence stays deferred.4
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