Galeus (, meaning "the lizard") was a figure in ancient

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, the son of

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and

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(the daughter of Zabius, the king of the Hyperboreans).Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Galeus
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Story

Following the advice from the oracle of Zeus at Dodona, Galeus emigrated to

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, where he established a sanctuary dedicated to his father, Apollo. This act played a significant role in the founding of the Galeotae (Γαλεῶται), a family of soothsayers in Sicily. The Galeotae traced their origins back to Galeus, and their principal seat was the town of Hybla, which became known as Galeotis (γαλεῶτις) (or Geleatis (γελεᾶτις) as

Thucydides Thucydides ( ; ; BC) was an Classical Athens, Athenian historian and general. His ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts Peloponnesian War, the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been d ...

writes it).

References

{{reflist Children of Apollo