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Ischys

American  
[is-kis] / ˈɪs kɪs /

noun

Classical Mythology.

  1. a youth who was slain after committing an act of infidelity with Coronis, the beloved of Apollo.

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Shall I sing of thee in love and dalliance; how thou wentest forth to woo the maiden Azanian, with Ischys, peer of Gods, and Elation’s son of the goodly steeds, or with Phorbas, son of Triopes, or Amarynthus, or how with Leucippus and Leucippus’ wife, thyself on foot, he in the chariot .

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