Entellus

A Trojan, or a Sicilian hero from whom the town of Entella, in Sicily, was believed to have received its name. According to Tzetzes,1 Entella was so called from Entella, the wife of Aegestes.

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References

Notes

  1. on Lycophron, 953.

Sources

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Virgil. Aeneid v, 389, with Servius.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.