Tyrrheus

A shepherd of king Latinus. Ascanius once, while hunting, killed a tame stag belonging to Tyrrheus, whereupon the country people took up arms, which was the first conflict in Italy between the natives and the Trojan settlers.

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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, 483 ff.; ix, 28.

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