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Amycus

[ am-i-kuhs ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.
  1. a son of Poseidon and one of the Meliae, known for his ruthlessness and his skill at boxing.


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Amycus, who was king of Bithynia, is represented as of a gigantic size, and a great proficient with the cstus.

This Butes was of the race of Amycus, the great boxer whom Pollux slew, and no man had stood before him.

Heavily fell Amycus to the ground, having no more heart, and raising his hands as he fell, in sign of throwing up the contest.

In the country of the Bebrycians the giant king Amycus challenged any of them to box with him.

But at the last Amycus, rising as one that fells an ox, smote with all his might.

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