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== Mythological figures == * [[Mopsus (son of Manto)|Mopsus]], son of [[Manto (daughter of Tiresias)|Manto]] either by [[Rhacius]] or [[Apollo]].<ref>Apollodorus; Mythological Library; E; VI; 3 to 5 / VI; 19</ref> * [[Mopsus (Argonaut)|Mopsus]], an [[Argonauts|Argonaut]] and son of [[Ampyx]] by a [[nymph]].<ref>''[[Argonautica]]'' I, pp. 65β68, 1502β1536); also [[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses'' IV, pp. 618β621; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'', pp. 14, 128, 172; [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]], ''Ad Lycophronem'', pp. [https://topostext.org/work/860#881 881], [https://topostext.org/work/860#980 980].</ref>{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}} * Mopsus, a [[Thracians|Thracian]] commander who had lived long before the [[Trojan War]]. Along with Sipylus the [[Scythia]]n, this Mopsus had been driven into exile from [[Thrace]] by its king [[Lycurgus of Thrace|Lycurgus]]. Sometime later, he and Sipylus defeated the Libyan [[Amazons]] in a pitched battle, in which their queen [[Myrine]] was slain, and the Thracians pursued the surviving Amazons all the way to Libya. * Mopsus is also the name chosen by [[Virgil]] for the young singer who makes a song about the death of [[Daphnis]] in [[Eclogue 5]]. The name recurs in [[Eclogue 8]] as the rival who is to marry Nysa, beloved of the singer Damon.
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