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Corythus is the name of six mortal men in Greek mythology.

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  1. Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.107
  2. Servius on Virgil, Aeneid 3.167, 7.207 & 10.719
  3. Lactantius, Divine Institutes 1.23
  4. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . 19th-century encyclopedia of classics.
  5. Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.290
  6. Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History 2 in Photius, Bibliotheca 190
  7. Valerius Flaccus, 3.95
  8. Diodorus Siculus, 4.33.11
  9. Conon, Narrations 23
  10. Lycophron, Alexandra 61
  11. Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem 57
  12. Parthenius, 34 from 2nd book of HellanicusTroica and from the Trojan History of Cephalon of Gergitha
  13. Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle

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