Xanthus
5. One of the sons of Aegyptus. (Hygin. Fab. 220.)
The name Xanthus is also given to some horses in Greek mythology, as to one of Achilles (Hom. Il. 16.149), and of Hector (8.185).
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.