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IAPYGIA (Ancient country) ITALY
Iapyx (Iapux). Son of Lycaon and brother of Daunius and
Peucetius, who went as leaders of a colony to Italy. According to others, he was
a Cretan and a son of Daedalus.
Iapyx (Iapux), a son of Lycaon and brother of Daunius and Peucetius, who went
as leaders of a colony to Italy (Anton. Lib. 31). According to others, Iapyx was
a Cretan, and a brother of Icadius (Serv. ad Aen. iii. 332), or a son of Daedalus
and a Cretan woman, from whom the Cretans who migrated to Italy derived the name
of Iapyges (Strab. vi.; Athen. xii.; Herod. vii. 170; Heyne, ad Virg. Aen. xi.
247).
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