Iapyx
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Image:Iapyx removing arrowhead from Aeneas.jpg Iapyx removing an arrowhead from the leg of Aeneas, with Aeneas's son, Ascanius (or Iulus), crying beside him.
In Roman mythology, Iapyx or Iapux was Aeneas's healer during the Trojan War and then escaped to Italy after the war and founded Apulia.
Descent
He was either:
- the son of Lycaon, which would make him the brother of Daunius and Peucetius (who went as leaders of a colony to Italy - Anton. Lib. 31)
- a Cretan, from whom the Cretans who migrated to Italy derived the name of Iapyges, son of Daedalus either
- by his wife, thus making him a full-brother of Icarus (Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898, Serv. ad Aen. iii. 332).
- by another Cretan woman (Strab. vi.; Athen. xii.; Herod. vii. 170; Heyne, ad Virg. Aen. xi. 247).
