Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Iāpyx

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Iāpyx

（Ἰάπυξ).

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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.

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The west-northwest wind blowing off the coast of Iapygia (Apulia), in the south of Italy, and consequently favourable to persons crossing over to Greece. It was called by the Greeks ἀργέστης.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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