Iapyx
Ἰάπυξ
(Ἰάπυξ), a son of Lycaon and brother of Daunius and Peucetius, who went as leaders of a colony to Italy. (Ant. Lib. 31.) According to others, Iapyx was a Cretan, and a brother of Icadius (Serv. ad Aen. 3.332), or a son of Daedalus and a Cretan woman, from whom the Cretans who migrated to Italy derived the name of Iapyges. (Strab. vi. pp. 279, 282; Athen. 12.523; Hdt. 7.170; Heyne, ad Virg. Aen. 11.247.)
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.