Lycoreus or Lycoris
1. A surname of Apollo, perhaps in the same sense as Lyceius, but he is usually so called with reference to Lycoreia, on Mount Parnassus. (Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius; Callim. Hymn in Apollo 19 ; Orph. Hymn. 33. 1.)
2 A son of Apollo and the nymph Corycia, from whom Lycoreia, in the neighbourhood of Delphi, was believed to have derived its name. (Pausanias x)
There are two other mythical personages of this name. (Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius)
From Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and MythologyFrom The Eclogues By Virgil.
This now, the very latest of my toils,
Vouchsafe me, Arethusa! needs must I
Sing a brief song to Gallus- brief, but yet
Such as Lycoris' self may fitly read.
Who would not sing for Gallus? So, when thou
Beneath Sicanian billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin! The love of Gallus be our theme,
And the shrewd pangs he suffered, while, hard by,
The flat-nosed she-goats browse the tender brush.
From Ars Amatoria By Ovid
We can make beauties that please us widely known:
Nemesis has a name, and Cynthia has: you’ll have heard of Lycoris from East to West: and many ask who my Corinna is.
Add that guile is absent from the sacred poets, and our art too fashions our characters.
