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Ganymedes

Γανυμήδης

(Γανυμήδης).

1. Governor of Aenos, in Thrace, while the town and district belonged to Ptolemy Philopater, king of Egypt. (Plb. 5.34.) Ganymedes betrayed Aenos to Philip II., king of Macedonia, B. C. 200. (Liv. 31.16.)

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.