Μόψος

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Menander, Monostichoi, 149

Wikipedia EN

Mopsus (/ˈmɒpsəs/; Ancient Greek: Μόψος, Mopsos) was the name of one of two famous seers in Greek mythology; his rival being Calchas. A historical or legendary Mopsos or Mukšuš may have been the founder of a house in power at widespread sites in the coastal plains of Pamphylia and Cilicia (in today's Turkey) during the early Iron Age.

  1. Mopsus, son of Manto either by Rhacius or Apollo. In Greek mythology, Mopsus, a celebrated seer and diviner, was the son of Manto, daughter of the mythic seer Tiresias, and of Rhacius of Caria or of Apollo himself, the oracular god. Greeks of the Classical age accepted Mopsus as a historical figure, though the anecdotes concerning him bridge legend and myth.
  2. Mopsus, an Argonaut and son of Ampyx by a nymph. In Greek mythology, Mopsus (/ˈmɒpsəs/; Ancient Greek: Μόψος, Mopsos), was the Lapith son of Ampyx and a nymph (sometimes named as Chloris and sometimes named Aregonis), born at Titaressa in Thessaly, was also a seer and augur. In Thessaly the place name Mopsion recalled his own. The earliest evidence of him is inscribed on the strap of a soldier's shield, found at Olympia and dated c.600–575 BC.
  3. Mopsus, a Thracian commander who had lived long before the Trojan War. Along with Sipylus the Scythian, this Mopsus had been driven into exile from Thrace by its king Lycurgus. Sometime later, he and Sipylus defeated the Libyan Amazons in a pitched battle, in which their queen Myrine was slain, and the Thracians pursued the surviving Amazons all the way to Libya.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

Μόψος: ὁ, Ἕλλην τις ἥρως, Ἡσ. Ἀσπ. Ἡρ. 181, Πίνδ., κλ. 2) περίφημός τις μάντις ἔχων μαντεῖον ἐν Μαλλῷ τῆς Κιλικίας, Στράβ. 443, κτλ.

English (Slater)

Μόψος a seer and Argonaut. μάντις ὀρνίχεσσι καὶ κλάροισι θεοπροπέων ἱεροῖς Μόψος (P. 4.191)

Russian (Dvoretsky)

Μόψος: ὁ Мопс
1) вещий лапиф, участник Калидонской охоты и похода Аргонавтов Hes., Pind.;
2) сын Аполлона и Манто, прорицатель в Колофоне Plut., Anth.