In Greek mythology, '''Polybule''' was the Boeotian mother of the Argonaut Leitus by Alector.<ref>Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca historica'' 4.67.7</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> Alternatively, Leitus parents were identified to be Lacritus and Cleobule<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 97</ref> or an earth-born, thus a son of Gaea.<ref>Euripides, ''Iphigenia in Aulis'' 259</ref>
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* Diodorus Siculus, ''The Library of History'' translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#67.7 Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site] * Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2''. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Euripides, ''The Plays of Euripides'', translated by E. P. Coleridge. Volume II. London. George Bell and Sons. 1891. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0108 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] *Euripides, ''Euripidis Fabulae.'' ''vol. 3''. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0107 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. *Gaius Julius Hyginus, ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] *Tzetzes, John, ''Allegories of the Iliad'' translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0-674-96785-4}}
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