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Telegonus

2. A king of Egypt who married Io, after she had come to rest from her wandering and found her son Epaphus. (Apollod. 2.1.3.) According to the Scholiast on Euripides (Or. 920) this Telegonus was a son of Epaphus and a brother of Libya.

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.