(), a son of Lycaon and brother of Daunius and
Peucetius, who went as leaders of a colony to Italy. (Ant. Lib.
31.) According to others, Iapyx was a Cretan, and a brother of Icadius (Serv. ad Aen. 3.332), or a son of Daedalus and a Cretan woman,
from whom the Cretans who migrated to Italy derived the name of Iapyges. (Strab. vi. pp. 279,
282; Athen. 12.523; Hdt. 7.170;
Heyne, ad Virg. Aen. 11.247.)