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Ampycus

Ἄμπυκος

(Ἄμπυκος).

1. A son of Pelias, husband of Chloris, and father of the famous seer Mopsus. (Hyg. Fab. 14, 128; Apollon. 1.1083; Ov. Met. 12.456.) Pausanias (5.17.4, 7.18.4) calls him Ampyx.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.