Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Eresus

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870)
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Eresus

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4725814Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology — Eresus1870William Smith (1813-1893)

E'RESUS (Ἔρεσος), a son of Macar, from whom the town of Eresus in Lesbos derived its name. (Steph. Byz. s.v.) A second otherwise unknown person of this name was painted in the Lesche at Delphi. (Paus. x. 27.)[L. S.]