MILETUS
a son of Apollo and Areia of Crete.
Being beloved by Minos and Sarpedon, he attached himself to the latter,
and fled from Minos to Caria, where he built a town, which he
called after his own name (Apollodorus iii. Argonautica. Ovid ( Metamorphoses
IV) calls him a son of Apollo and Deione, and hence Deionides. A different
genealogy and story about him is preserved in Antonius
Liberalis