Iapyx
(
Ἰάπυξ), a son of Lycaon and brother of Daunius and Peucetius, who went as leaders of a colony to Italy. (
Ant. Lib. 31.)
According to others, Iapyx was a Cretan, and a brother of Icadius (
Serv. ad Aen. 3.332), or a son of Daedalus and a Cretan woman, from whom the Cretans who migrated to Italy derived the name of Iapyges. (Strab. vi. pp. 279, 282;
Athen. 12.523;
Hdt. 7.170; Heyne,
ad Virg. Aen. 11.247.)
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