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Mythology (3)

Kings

Hypseus

Hypseus (Hupseus), a son of Peneius, and the Naiad Creusa, or Phillyra, the daughter of Asopus, was king of the Lapithae, and married to Chlidanope, by whom he became the father of Cyrene, Alcaea, Themisto, and Astyageia (Pind. Pyth. ix. 13, &c.; Apollod. i. 9,2; Diod. iv. 69; Paus. ix. 34.5). Another personage of this name occurs in Ovid (Met. v. 99).

Hegemons

Elatus

One of the Lapithae, and father of Polyphemus and of Caeneus, who is hence called Elateius.

Elatus. a prince of the Lapithae at Laiisa in Thessaly, was married to Hippeia, by whom he became the father of Cacneus and Polyphemus, both of whom took part in the expedition of the Argonauts (Hygin. Fab. 11; Ov. Met. xii. 497). He is sometimes confounded with the Arcadian Elatus. There are four more mythical personages of this name. (Hom. Il. vi. 33, Od. xxii. 268; Apollod. ii. 5.4; Apollon. Rhod. i. 101.)

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