Garanus

A shepherd of gigantic bodily strength, who is said to have come from Greece into Italy in the reign of Evander, and slew Cacus.1 Aurelius Victor2 calls him Recaranus, but both writers agree in identifying him with the Greek Heracles.

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References

Notes

  1. Servius on Virgil's Aeneid viii, 203.
  2. De Origine Gentis Romanae, 6.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

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