Hippocoon

, a son of Œbalus, brother to Tyndarus. He was put to death by Hercules, because he had driven his brother from the kingdom of Lacedæmon. He was at the chase of the Calydonian boar. Diodorus , bk. 4 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 2 , . ; bk. 3 , ch. 10 .— Pausanias , Laconia .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 8 , li. 314 .――A friend of Æneas, son of Hyrtacus, who distinguished himself in the funeral games of Sicily. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 3 , li. 492 , .