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She, as Douris tells in [book] 2 of his Libyan Histories, was a beautiful woman in Libya; after Zeus had mated with her, Hera was jealous and killed her children; hence, out of grief, she became mis-shapen and snatched and killed everyone else's children.[1] [Lamia] is also a city of Thessaly. It was from there, after the death of Alexander [sc. the Great], that the Greeks under Athenian leadership started out to make a challenge for their freedom, and defeated Antipater.[2] Menander in Man-Woman [writes]: "for having filled [?] from various parts of the battle-line he destroyed all the [?] at Lamia".[3]

Λαμία: ταύτην ἐν τῇ Λιβύῃ Δοῦρις ἐν β# Λιβυκῶν ἱστορεῖ γυναῖκα καλὴν γενέσθαι, μιχθέντος δὲ αὐτῇ Διός, ὑφ' Ἥρας ζηλοτυπουμένην, ἃ ἔτικτεν ἀπολλύναι: διόπερ ἀπὸ τῆς λύπης δύσμορφον γεγονέναι καὶ τὰ τῶν ἄλλων παιδία ἀναρπάζουσαν διαφθείρειν. ἔστι δὲ καὶ πόλις Θεσσαλίας, ὅθεν ὁρμηθέντες οἱ Ἕλληνες μετὰ τὸν Ἀλεξάνδρου θάνατον, Ἀθηναίων ἡγουμένων, τῆς ἐλευθερίας ἀντιποιησάμενοι τὸν Ἀντίπατρον ἐνίκησαν. Μένανδρος Ἀνδρογύνῳ: πλήσας γὰρ ἔφθειρεν ἐκ παρατάξεώς ποθεν τὰς ἐν Λαμίᾳ πάσας.

This entry does double duty: see OCD(3) s.v. Lamia(1) for the 'nursery bogy' and s.v. Lamia(2) for the city. See also lambda 85.
[1] D(o)uris of Samos, FGrH 76 F17. (The more authentic title of this work, it seems, is Histories of Agathokles: see F16.)
[2] This is the so-called Lamian War of 323-321. For this, and Antipater, cf. alpha 2703, alpha 2704.
[3] Menander fr.52 Kock, changing the finite verb to ἔφερεν . Koerte-Thierfelder retain a version of the Suda's ἔφθειρεν for their fr.47. The implicit feminine noun at the end, at any rate, is presumably something like 'armies'.

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