Lycus
8. A king of Lycia, who is said to have intended to sacrifice to Ares, Diomedes, who on his return fiom Troy was thrown upon the Lycian coast. But Diomedes was saved by the king's daughter Callirhoe. (Plut. Parall. Graec. et Rom. 23.)
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.