Ἔπαφος
From LSJ
Κύριε, βοήθησον τὸν δοῦλον σου Νῖλον κτλ. → Lord, help your slave Nilos ... (mosaic inscription from 4th-cent. church in the Negev)
English (LSJ)
ὁ, Epaphus, a son of Zeus and Io, A.Pr.851 (v. ἁφή); the Hellenic representative of the Egyptian god Apis, Hdt.2.153, 3.27,28.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Ἔπαφος: ὁ, υἱὸς τοῦ Διὸς καὶ τῆς Ἰοῦς, Αἰσχύλ. Πρ. 850· ἴδε ἐν λ. ἀφή· ὁ δὲ Ἆπις κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλήνων γλῶσσάν ἐστι Ἔπαφος Ἡρόδ. 2. 153., 3. 27, 28.
English (Slater)
Ἔπαφος son of Zeus and Io. “φαμὶ γὰρ τᾶσδ' ἐξ ἁλιπλάκτου ποτὲ γᾶς (Θήρας) Ἐπάφοιο κόραν ἀστέων ῥίζαν φυτεύσεσθαι” i. e. Libya, daughter of Epaphos (P. 4.14)
1 πολλὰ δ' Αἰγύπτῳ κατῴκισθεν ἄστη ταῖς Ἐπάφου παλάμαις (N. 10.5)
