Lўcus

Lўcus — Lewis & Short

Lўcus or -os, i, m., = *lu/kos.

I Son of Pandion, king of Lycia, Mela, 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 Æneas, 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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