Leitus

Leitus was the son of AlectorApollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Leitus 1.9.16] (Alectryon)Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#67.7 4.67.7] and Polybule{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes|first=John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=41, Prologue 534|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}} or of Lacritus and Cleobule. He was the brother of Clonius, and probably the half-sibling of other Boeotian leaders, Arcesilaus and Prothoenor.{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes|first=John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=41, Prologue 533–536|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}

In some accounts, Leitus was described as an earth-born and thus a son of Gaia (Earth).Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 259

Leitus also sailed with the Argonauts and afterwards, as one of the suitors of Helen, fought in the Trojan War,Homer, Iliad [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+2.494&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%20:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Le 2.494]; Apollodorus, 3.10.8; Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#97 97] where he killed 20 enemies,Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#114 114] including Phylacus.Homer, Iliad 6.35

Leitus was one of the seven Achaean leaders (others being Teucer, Thoas, Meriones, Antilochus, Peneleos and Deipyrus) in front of whom Poseidon appeared during the Trojans' attack on the Achaean ships, urging them to fight back instead of acting like cowards.Homer, Iliad 13.90–124 He was wounded by Hector on the hand at the wrist,Homer, Iliad 17.602–605 but in the end, he was the only Boeotian leader to safely return home after the Trojan War. He also brought back the remains of Arcesilaus, another Boeotian chieftain, and buried them near the city of Lebadea.Pausanias, 9.39.3 His own tomb was at Plataeae.Pausanias, 9.4.3

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