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

(Ὄγκος), a son of Apollo, and founder of Onceium in Arcadia. Demeter, after being me tamorphosed ilto a horse, mixed among his herds, and gave him the horse Arion, of which she was the mother by Poseidon. (Paus. 8.25.4, &c.; comp. Step. Byz. s. v.)

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