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Elaphus

Ἔλαφος

(Ἔλαφος), the fifteenth in descent from Aesculapius, the son of Chrysus and the farther of Hippolochus II., who lived probably in the island of Cos in the sixth and fifth centuries B. C. (Suid. s. v. Ἱπποκράτης; Thessali Oratio, ap. Hippocr. Opera, vol. iii. p. 840.)

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.