Leto took pity on Galateia because of her unremitting and distressing prayers and changed the sex of Leukippos into a boy’s in order to save the child from her murderous father. In memory of this change the citizens of Phaistos still sacrifice to Leto Phytie (the Grafter) because she had grafted organs on the girl and they give her festival the name of Ekdysia (Stripping) because the girl had stripped off her maidenly peplos. It is now an observance in marriages to lie down beforehand beside the statue of Leukippos. (Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 17)
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