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Γρύνειος

(Γρύνειος), a surname of Apollo, under which he had a temple, an ancient oracle, and a beautiful grove near the town of Grynion, Gryna, or Grynus in Aeolis in Asia Minor. (Paus. 1.21.9; Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. 6.72; Athen. 4.149; Steph. Byz. s. v. Τρύνοι.) Under the similar, if not the same name, Τρυνεύς, Apollo was worshipped in the Hecatonnesi. (Strab. xiii. p.618.) Ovid (Ov. Met. 12.260) mentions a centaur of the name of Gryneus.

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.