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Lycegenes

Λυκηγενής

(Λυκηγενής), a surname of Apollo, describing him either as the god born in Lycia, or as the god born of light. (Hom. Il. 4.101, 119 ;comp. LYCEIUS.)

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.