Capys

Template:Short description Template:For In Roman and Greek mythology, Capys (Template:IPAc-en; Ancient Greek: Κάπυς) was a name attributed to three individuals:

• Capys, king of Dardania.<ref name=":1">Virgil, Aeneid 2.35</ref>
• Capys, the Trojan who warned not to bring the Trojan horse into the city.<ref>Virgil, Aeneid 2.35–38</ref>
• Capys, mythological king of Alba Longa and descendant of Aeneas. Said to have reigned from 963 to 935 BC.<ref>Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.71.</ref>

According to Roman sources,<ref>Isaac Taylor Etruscan Researches (Macmillan and Co. 1874) p. 317 referencing Servius</ref> in the Etruscan language the word capys meant "hawk" or "falcon" (or possibly "eagle" or "vulture").Template:S-start Template:S-reg Template:S-bef Template:S-ttl Template:S-aft Template:S-end

References

• Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937–1950. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.