Iapyx

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In Greek mythology, Iapyx, son of Daedalus or Lycaon, was Aeneas' healer during the Trojan War. He escaped to Italy after the war and founded Apulia.

Virgil XX, 391, 402

Iapyx (Iapux). Son of Lycaon and brother of Daunius and Peucetius, who went as leaders of a colony to Italy. According to others, he was a Cretan and a son of Daedalus. (Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898))

Iapyx (Iapux), a son of Lycaon and brother of Daunius and Peucetius, who went as leaders of a colony to Italy (Anton. Lib. 31). According to others, Iapyx was a Cretan, and a brother of Icadius (Serv. ad Aen. iii. 332), or a son of Daedalus and a Cretan woman, from whom the Cretans who migrated to Italy derived the name of Iapyges (Strab. vi.; Athen. xii.; Herod. vii. 170; Heyne, ad Virg. Aen. xi. 247).

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