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Entellus

a Trojan, or a Sicilian hero from whom the town of Entella, in Sicily, was believed to have received its name. (Verg. A. 5.389, with Servius.) Tzetzes (ad Lycoph. 953) states, that Entella was so called from Entella, the wife of Aegestes.

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.