Messapus

A son of Neptune and king of Etruria (Tyrrhenia), who was invulnerable, and a famous tamer of horses.

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References

Sources

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Virgil. Aeneid vii, 691 ff., with the note of Servius.

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