Messapus
Μέσσαπος
(Μέσσαπος).
1. A Boeotian, from whom Mount Messapion, on the coast of Boeotia, and Messapia (also called Iapygia), in southern Italy, were believed to have derived their names. (Strab. ix. p.405.)
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