Ormenus
Ὄρμενος
(Ὄρμενος.)
1. A son of cercaphus, grandson of Aeolus and father of Amyntor, was believed to have founded the town of Ormenium, in Thessaly. From him Amyntor is sometimes called Ormenides, and Astydameia, his grand-daughter, Ormenis. (Hom Il. 2.734, 9.448, 10.266, Od. 15.413; ov. Her. 9.50.)
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.