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In the Dionysiaca of Nonnus (early 5th century), Lelantos, or Lelantus (Greek: Λήλαντος) is the Titan father of the nymph Aura ("Breeze"),[1] who was the mother, by Dionysus, of Iacchus, a minor deity connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.[2] Lelantos was married to the Oceanid Periboia, whom Nonnus seems to imply was Aura's mother,[3] although elsewhere, he calls Aura the "daughter of Cybele".[4]


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  1. Grimal, s.v. Aura, p. 71; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.238–247 (III pp. 440–443), 48.421 (III pp. 454–455); 48.444 (III pp. 456–457).
  2. Bernabé and García-Gasco, p. 109; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.26–28 (I pp. 4, 5), 48.848–968 (III pp. 484–493).
  3. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.245–247 (III pp. 440–443).
  4. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.26–28 (I pp. 4, 5).