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Peucetius

Πευκέτιος

(Πευκέτιος), one of the sons of Lycaoin, is said to have led, in conjunction with his brother Oenotrus, an Arcadian colony into Italy, where they landed near the Iapygian promontory. (Dionys. llal. 1.11; Apollod. 3.8.1.)

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.