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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. Parthenius, 34 from 2nd book of HellanicusTroica and from the Trojan History of Cephalon of Gergitha

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