Phorbas

, a son of Priam and Epithesia, killed during the Trojan war by Menelaus. The god Somnus borrowed his features when he deceived Palinurus, and threw him into the sea near the coast of Italy. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 5 , li. 842 .――A son of Lapithus, who married Hyrmine the daughter of Epeus, by whom he had Actor. Pelops, according to Diodorus, shared his kingdom with Phorbas, who also, says the same historian, established himself at Rhodes, at the head of a colony from Elis and The aly, by order of the oracle, which promised, by his means only, deliverance from the numerous serpents which infested the island. Diodorus , bk. 2 .— Pausanias , bk. 5 , ch. 1 .――A shepherd of Polybus king of Corinth.――A man who profaned Apollo’s temple, . Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 11 , li. 414 .――A king of Argos.――A native of Cyrene, son of Methion, killed by Perseus. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 5 , fable 3.