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Merops

3. A king of Rhindacus, of Percote, on the Hellespont, is also called Macar, or Macareus. He was a celebrated soothsayer and the father of Cleite, Arisbe, Amphius, and Adrastus. (Hom. Il. 2.831, 11.329; Apollon. 1.975; Strab. xiii. p.586; Conon, Narrat. 41; Steph. Byz. s. v. Ἀρίσξη; Serv. ad Aen. 9.264; Apollod. 3.12.5.)

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.