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Bebryce (Bebruke), one of the Danaids, whom Apollodorus (ii. 1.5) calls Bryce, and from whom the Bebryces in Bithynia were believed to have derived their name. (Eustath. ad Dionys. Perieg. 805.) Others however derived the Bebryces from a hero, Bebryx. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Bebrukon).
Amycus (Amukos). A son of Poseidon; a gigantic king of the Bebrycians
on the Bithynian coast, who forced every stranger that landed there to box with
him. When the Argonauts wished to draw water from a spring in his country, he
forbade them, but was conquered and killed in a match with Polydences (Pollux).
Amycus. A son of Poseidon by Bithynis, or by the Bithynian nymph Melia. He was ruler of the country of the Bebryces, and when the Argonauts landed on the coast of his dominions, he challenged the bravest of them to a boxing match. Polydeuces, who accepted the challenge, killed him (Apollod. i. 9.20; Hygin. Fab. 17; Apollon. Rhod. ii. init.). The Scholiast on Apollonius (ii. 98) relates, that Polydences bound Amycus. Previous to this fatal encounter with the Argonauts, Amycus had had a feud with Lycus, king of Mysia, who was supported by Heracles, and in it Mydon, the brother of Amycus, fell by the hands of Heracles (Apollod. ii. 5.9 ;Apollon. Rhod. ii. 754). Pliny (H. N. xvi. 89) relates, that upon the tomb of Amycus there grew a species of laurel (laurus insana), which had the effect that, when a branch of it was taken on board a vessel, the crew began to quarrel, and did not cease until the branch was thrown overboard. Three other mythical personages of this name occur in Ov. Met. xii. 245; Virg. Aen. x. 705, compared with Hom. Il. vi. 289; Virg. Aen. xii. 509, compared with v. 297.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Bormus, (Bormos or Borimos), a son of Upius, a Mariandynia, was a youth distinguished for his extraordinary beauty. Once during the time of harvest, when he went to a well to fetch water for the reapers, he was drawn into the well by the nymphs, and never appeared again. For this reason, the country people in Bithynia celebrated his memory every year at the time of harvest with plaintive songs (bormoi) with the accompaniment of their flutes. (Athen. xiv.; Aeschyl. Pers. 941; Schol. ad Dionys. Perieg. 791; Pollux, iv. 54.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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