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MOPSUS , in See also:

Greek See also:legend, the name of two seers. (r) Son of Ampyx (or Ampycus) and the nymph Chloris, a Lapith of Oechalia in See also:Thessaly. He took See also:part in the Calydonian See also:boar See also:hunt and accompanied the See also:Argonauts as their See also:prophet. He died from the bite of a See also:serpent which sprang from the See also:blood of the See also:Gorgon See also:Medusa. He is represented on the See also:chest of Cypselus as See also:boxing with See also:Admetus. He was afterwards worshipped as a See also:hero and an See also:oracle was consecrated to him. (2) Son of Rhacius (or See also:Apollo) and Manto, daughter of See also:Teiresias. The See also:rival seer See also:Calchas is said to have died of chagrin because the predictions of Mopsus were fulfilled, while his own proved incorrect. Together with another seer, See also:Amphilochus, Mopsus founded Mallus in See also:Cilicia, after the return from See also:Troy; and in a See also:quarrel for its See also:possession both lost their lives. According to See also:Pausanias (vii. 3, 2) Mopsus expelled the native inhabitants of See also:Caria, and built the See also:town of See also:Colophon. Mopsus was worshipped as a See also:god by the Cilicians, and had two famous oracles at Colophon and Mallus.

His name survives in the town of Mopsuestia (Mby'ou 'Ecria) and the See also:

spring of Mopsucrene. Mopsus appears to be the incarnation of Apollo of Claros.

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