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Nisus

3. A noble of Dulichium, and father of Amphinomus, who was one of the suitors of Penelope. (Hom. Od. 16.395, 18.126, 412.)

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.