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Anius had three daughters: Oeno, Spermo, and Elais, known as the Oenotropae ; and three sons, Andros, Mykonos, and Thasos.

Their mother was Dorippe, a Thracian woman ransomed by Anius for the price of a horse from the pirates who had kidnapped her.

Dionysus gave the three daughters the power to change whatever they wanted into wine, wheat, and oil.

When the Greeks landed on Delos while on their way to Troy, Anius prophesized that the Trojan War would not be won until the tenth year, and insisted that they stay with him for nine years, promising that his daughters would supply them with aliments during that period.

When Agamemnon heard this, he wanted to take the Oenotropae with him by force, to provide his army with food and wine.

They prayed to Dionysus, who changed them into doves.