According to Herodotus, Labda ( Ancient Greek: Λάβδα) was a daughter of the Bacchiad Amphion, and mother of Cypselus, by Eetion. ^[1] Her name was derived from the fact of her feet being turned outward, and thus resembling the letter lambda (Λ), ^[2] which, by the accounts of the most ancient Greek grammarians, was originally pronounced labda [labda].

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• "Labda." Leonhard Schmitz. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. William Smith, editor (1870).

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