Sarpēdon

, a son of Jupiter by Europa the daughter of Agenor. He banished himself from Crete, after he had in vain attempted to make himself king in preference to his elder brother Minos, and he retired to Caria, where he built the town of Miletus. He went to the Trojan war to a ist Priam against the Greeks, where he was attended by his friend and companion Glaucus. He was at last killed by Patroclus, after he had made a great slaughter of the enemy, and his body, by order of Jupiter, was conveyed to Lycia by Apollo, where his friends and relations paid him funeral honours, and raised a monument to perpetuate his valour. According to some mythologists, the brother of king Minos, and the prince who a isted Priam, were two different persons. This last was king of Lycia, and son of Jupiter by Laodamia the daughter of Bellerophon, and lived about 100 years after the age of the son of Europa. Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 1 .— Hero dot us , bk. 1 , ch. 173 .— Strabo , bk. 12 .— Homer , Iliad , bk. 16 .――A son of Neptune, killed by Hercules for his barbarous treatment of strangers.――A learned preceptor of Cato of Utica. Plutarch , Cato .――A town of Cilicia, famous for a temple sacred to Apollo and Diana.――Also a promontory of the same name in Cilicia, beyond which Antiochus was not permitted to sail by a treaty of peace which he had made with the Romans. Livy , bk. 38 , ch. 38 .— Mela , bk. 1 , ch. 13 .――A promontory of Thrace.――A Syrian general who flourished B.C. 143.