Iapyx

A son of Lycaon and brother of Daunus and Peucetius, who went as leaders of a colony to Italy.1 According to others, Iapyx was a Cretan, and a brother of Icadius,2 or a son of Daedalus and a Cretan woman, from whom the Cretans who migrated to Italy derived the name of Iapyges.3

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References

Notes

  1. Antoninus Liberalis, 31.
  2. Servius on Virgil's Aeneid iii, 332.
  3. Strabo. Geography vi, pp. 279, 282; Athenaeus, xii, p. 523; Herodotus. Histories vii, 170; Heyne οn Virgil's Aeneid xii, 247.

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.