A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Πένθιλος), a son of Orestes and Erigone, is said to have led a colony of Aeolians to Thrace. He was the father of Echelatus and Damasias. (Paus. 2.18.5, 3.2.1, 5.4.2, 7.6.2; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 1374; Strab. xiii. p.582; Aristot. Pol. 5.8, 13.)

There was also a son of Periclymenus of this name. (Paus. 2.18.7.)

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