One of the seven sons of Aeolus by Enarete, Deion reigned over Phocis and married Diomede, daughter of Xuthus; she bore him the daughter Asterodia and the sons Aenetus, Actor, Phylacus, and Cephalus, the husband of Procris whom Dawn carried off.1
Apollodorus numbers Deion among the seven sons whom Aeolus, son of Hellen, begot on Enarete, daughter of Deimachus, beside Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Magnes, and Perieres. His is the Phocian portion of the inheritance: while his brothers take other realms, Deion holds the rule of Phocis.2
His own house Apollodorus gives in a single dense clause. Deion reigned over Phocis and married Diomede, daughter of Xuthus; there were born to him a daughter, Asterodia, and the sons Aenetus, Actor, Phylacus, and Cephalus, who married Procris, daughter of Erechtheus. The line is named only to be carried on: afterwards Dawn fell in love with Cephalus and carried him off, so that the Phocian king's son passes from the mortal catalogue into the orbit of the goddess.3
Pausanias confirms the descent independently. In tracing the cult on the island later called Cephallenia, he names "Cephalus, the son of Deion," who helped Amphitryon destroy the Teleboans and was the first to settle there — the patronymic anchoring the famed master of Procris's hound back to the Phocian house.4
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