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Ampycus

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[am-pi-kuhs] / ˈæm pɪ kəs /
Also Ampyx

noun

Classical Mythology.

  1. a son of Pelias, husband of Chloris, and father of Mopsus.

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Even his comrades wondered as they gazed upon him, radiant with manifold graces; and the son of Ampycus rejoiced in their journey, already foreboding how all would end.

From The Argonautica by Seaton, R. C. (Robert Cooper)

Thereupon on the same day a pitiless fate seized Mopsus too, son of Ampycus; and he escaped not a bitter doom by his prophesying; for there is no averting of death.

From The Argonautica by Seaton, R. C. (Robert Cooper)

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