Elymus
Ἔλυμος
(Ἔλυμος), a Trojan, a natural son of Anchises and a brother of Eryx. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 959.) Previous to the emigration of Aeneias, Elymus and Aegestus had fled from Troy to Sicily, and had settled on the banks of the river Crimisus, in the country of the Sicani. When afterwards Aeneias also arrived there, he built for them the towns of Aegesta and Elyme, and the Trojans who settled in that part of Sicily called themselves Elymi, after Elymus. (Dionys. A. R. 1.52, &c.) Strabo (xiii. p.608) calls him Elymnus, and says that lie went to Sicily with Aeneias, and that they together took possession of Eryx and Lilybaeum. Elymus was further believed to have founded Asca and Entella in Sicily. (Virg. Aen. 5.73, with Servius's note.)
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.