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by Micha F. Lindemans

The son of Aphrodite and Butes, king of the Elymi on Sicily. He was a renowned boxer and challenged even Heracles to a fight, which led to his death (Virgil V, 392, 412). According to a different tradition he was turned to stone by Perseus holding the separated head of Medusa.