Lycus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Lycus or -os, i, m., = Λύκος.

I Son of Pandion, king of Lycia , Mel. 1, 15, 1.—

II A Theban, who, when Hercules descended into the Lower World, took possession of the sovereignty in Thebes , Hyg. Fab. 31 and 32. —

III One of the Centaurs at the wedding of Pirithoüs , Ov. M. 12, 332.—

IV A companion of Diomedes , Ov. M. 14, 504.—

V One of the companions of Aeneas , Verg. A. 1, 222.—

VI An historian of Regium, the adoptive father of the tragic writer Lycophron; he wrote a history of Libya and Sicily , Plin. 31, 2, 19, § 27.—

VII The name of several rivers .

A In Bithynia, the Rhyndacus , now Kilij Su , Ov. P. 4, 10, 47.—

B In Great Phrygia , Ov. M. 15, 273.—

C In Paphlagonia , Verg. G. 4, 367.—

D In Cilicia , Plin. 5, 27, 22, § 91.—

E In Ionia , Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 115.—

F A river flowing into the Euphrates , Plin. 5, 24, 20, § 84.—

VIII An Illyrian city in the territory of the Dessaretes , Liv. 32, 9.

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