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Mecisteus

2. A son of Echius, and one of the companions of Teucer at Troy. (Hornm. Il. 8.333; comp. Hdt. 5.67.) Mecisteus also occurs as a surname of Heracles. (Lycoph. 651.)

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.