Phyllis (river god)
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River-god in Greek mythology
In Greek mythology, Phyllis (Φύλλις) was the god of the homonymous river in Bithynia. By a local meadow nymph, he became father of a son Dipsacus, who led a pastoral lifestyle by his father's river and was remembered for having been hospitable to Phrixus on the latter's way to Colchis.
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[edit]- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2. 652 - 657 with scholia on 652 - 653
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