Catillus

According to later mythographers, a son of Amphiaraus, and a contemporary of Aeneas. Following the command of an oracle, Catillus, together with Tiburtus and Coras, founded the city of Tibur (the present-day Tivoli). He fought against Aeneas and killed Iolas.

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References

Sources

  • Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia xvi, 87.
  • Solinus, ii, 8.
  • Virgil. Aeneid vii, 671.
  • Vollmer, Wilhelm. (1874). Wörterbuch der Mythologie. Stuttgart, p. 126.