Oncus

A son of Apollo, and founder of Onceium in Arcadia. Demeter, after being metamorphosed into a horse, mixed among his herds, and gave him the horse Arion, of which she was the mother by Poseidon.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 25.4 ff; comp. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v.
  • 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.