Galeus
Γάλεος
(Γάλεος), that is, "the lizard," a son of Apollo and Themisto, the daughter of the Hyperborean king Zabius. In pursuance of an oracle of the Dodonean Zeus, Galeus emigrated to Sicily, where lie built a sanctuary to his father Apollo. The Galeotae, a family of Sicilian soothsayers, derived their origin from him. (Aelian, Ael. VH 12.46; Cic. de Dixin. 1.20; Steph. Byz. s. v. γαλεῶται. The principal seat of the Galeatae was the town of Hybla, which was hence called γαλεῶτις, or, as Thucydides (6.62.) writes it, γελεᾶτις.)
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.