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| OGYGES | |
| Form: Ogygus. | |
| One of the Boeotian autochthones, or aborigines, son of Boeotus or (according to another account) of Poseidon. He was king of the Hectenes, the oldest inhabitants of Boeotia, which was visited during his reign by an inundation of Lake Copais, named after him the Ogygian flood. | |
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