Ampycus
2. A son of Japetus, a bard and priest of Ceres, killed by Pettalus at the marriage of Perseus. (Ov. Met. 5.110, &c.) Another personage of this name occurs in Orph. Arg. 721.
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.