Heliades

• daughters of Helios and sisters of Phaëthon, who were changed into poplars (acc. to others, into alders) and their tears into amber, Hyg. Fab. 154; Ov. M. 2, 340 (cf. Verg. A. 10, 190, with id. E. 6, 62): nemus Heliadum, i. e. poplar- or alder-grove, Ov. M. 10, 91: Heliadum lacrimae, i. e. amber, id. ib. 10, 263; called also: Heliadum gemma, Mart. 9, 14, 6; hence: capaces Heliadum crustae, i. e. of amber, Juv. 5, 38.

• , Ἡλιάδες, daughters of Helios, changed into poplars, O.: nemus Heliadum, i. e. poplar-grove, O.; their tears became amber, hence, Heliadum lacrimae, i. e. amber, O.: capaces Heliadum crustae, i. e. of amber, Iu.

(Ἡλιάδες) and Heliădae (Ἡλιάδαι). (1) The daughters of Helios (the Sun) and Clymené. They were three in number—Lampetié, Phaëthusa, and Phoebé; or seven, according to Hyginus— Meropé, Helié, Aeglé, Lampetié, Phoebé, Aethria, and Dioxippé. They were so afflicted at the death of their brother Phaëthon (see Phaëthon) that they were changed by the gods into poplars, and their tears into amber, on the banks of the river Po (Ovid, Met. ii. 340; Hyg. Fab. 154).

(2) Children of Helios and the nymph Rhodus. They were seven in number, and were fabled to have been the first inhabitants of the island of Rhodes. See Rhodus.