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Laocoosa

The wife of Aphareus, and mother of Idas. Theocritus, however, calls the mother of Idas Arene.

From Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

From Theocritus, Bion and Moschus

Nay, nor that other of her children did Laocoosa see, by the hearth of his fathers, after he had fulfilled a happy marriage. For lo, Messenian Idas did swiftly break away the standing stone from the tomb of his father Aphareus, and now he would have smitten the slayer of his brother, but Zeus defended him and drave the polished stone from the hands of Idas, and utterly consumed him with a flaming thunderbolt.

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