Pyrēne, a daughter of Bebrycius king of the southern parts of Spain. Hercules offered violence to her before he went to attack Geryon, and she brought into the world a serpent, which so terrified her, that she fled into the woods, where she was torn to pieces by wild beasts.——A nymph, mother of Cycnus by Mars. Apollodorus.——A fountain near Corinth.——A small village in Celtic Gaul, near which, according to some, the river Ister took its rise.
Pyrgi, an ancient town of Etruria, on the sea coast. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 184.—Livy, bk. 36, ch. 3.
Pyrgion, an historian who wrote on the laws of Crete. Athenæus.
Pyrgo, the nurse of Priam’s children, who followed Æneas in his flight from Troy. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 5, li. 645.
Pyrgotĕles, a celebrated engraver on gems in the age of Alexander the Great. He had the exclusive privilege of engraving the conqueror, as Lysippus was the only sculptor who was permitted to make statues of him. Pliny, bk. 37, ch. 1.
Pyrgrus, a fortified place of Elis in the Peloponnesus.
Pyrippe, a daughter of Thespius.
Pyro, one of the Oceanides. Hesiod.
Pyrodes, a son of Cilix, said to be the first who discovered and applied to human purposes the fire concealed in flints. Pliny, bk. 7, ch. 56.
Pyrois, one of the horses of the sun. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 2, li. 153.