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Thelxion

Θελξίων

(Θελξίων), in conjunction with Telchin, murdered Apis, when he attempted to subjugate Peloponnesus; but they themselves were slain in return by Argus Panoptes. (Apollod. 2.1.1, &c.) Pausanias ( 2.5.5) calls him a son of Apis and the father of Aegyrus.

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.