Lamus
[ley-muh s]
|
noun Classical Mythology.
a son of Hercules and Omphale.
the king of a people who attacked 11 ships of Odysseus and devoured their crews.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for lamus
Historical Examples of lamus
In 805 the first great ransoming of Moslem prisoners took place on the banks of the little river Lamus in Cilicia.
In the year 808 the second ransoming between the Moslems and the Greeks took place near the river Lamus.
Their chief city was Telepylus, founded by a former king Lamus, their ruler at that time being Antiphates.