Bebrycius (
Ancient Greek
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: Βεβρύκιος) or Bebryx, in
Greek mythology
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, was a king and the father of
Pyrene.
[(Anonymous) ''A classical manual, being a mythological, historical, and geographical commentary on Pope's Homer and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil''. London, J. Murray, 1833]
p. 588
/ref> The mythical tribe of the Bebryces is presumably named after a hero named ''Bebrycus''.
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Kings in Greek mythology
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