Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), L, Luna, Lycēus

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Lycēus

（Λύκειος). A surname of Apollo, the meaning of which is not quite certain. Some derive it from λύκος, a wolf, so that it would mean “the wolf-slayer;” others from λύκη, light, according to which it would mean “the giver of light;” and others again from the country of Lycia. See Apollo.

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

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