Iliŏneus
（Ἰλιονεύς). A son of Niobé, whom Apollo would have liked to save, because he was praying; but the arrow was no longer under the control of the god (Ovid, Met. vi. 261). See Niobé.
Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.
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