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Oenotrus
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Oenotrus
In Greek mythology, Oenotrus was one of the fifty (the youngest) sons of Lycaon from Arcadia. Together with his brother Peucetius (Greek: Πευκέτιος), he migrated to the Italian Peninsula, dissatisfied because of the division of Peloponnesus among the fifty brothers by their father Lycaon. According to the Greek and Roman traditions, this was the first expedition dispatched from Greece to found a colony, long before the Trojan War. He was the eponymous of Oenotria (Greek: Οἰνωτρία), giving his name to the Italian peninsula, especially the Southern Pass (modern Calabria).
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Oenotrus
[Greek] The son of Lycaon (1). He moved to Italy, where the southern pas was named after him (Oenotria).
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