Phobetor

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phobetor (Ancient Greek: Φοβήτωρ;[1] 'Frightener' from Ancient Greek: φόβος, phobos, 'fear' 'panic'),[2] so called by men, or Icelos (Ancient Greek: Ἴκελος; 'Like'),[3] so called by the gods, is one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep, the Roman counterpart of Hypnos).

He appeared in dreams "in the form of beast or bird or the long serpent".

[5] The three brothers‘ names are found nowhere earlier than Ovid, which leads some scholars to believe that they were originally invented by him.

[6] One example of these scholars is Tripp, who calls the three figures "literary, not mythical concepts".

For example, Griffin suggests that the names of the deities and the division of dream forms between Phobetor and his brothers may have been of Hellenistic origin.