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Phorbas

2. A son of Argos or Criasus, was a brother of Peirasus, and married to Euboea, by whom he be came the father of Triopas, whence he seems to have been a grandson of No. 1. (Paus. 2.16.1, 4.1.2; Schol. ad Eurip. Or. 920.)

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.