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Iapetus

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) the Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.





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... SONNES. Johannes Bodinus ad fac. hist. cogn. Franciscus Tarapha.] Iaphet the third son of Noah, of some called Iapetus, and of others, Atlas Maurus (because he departed this life in Mauritania) was the first (as Bodinus affirmeth by the authoritie and consent of the Hebrue, Greeke & Latine writers) that peopled the countries of Europe, which afterward he diuided among his sonnes: ...
— Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (1 of 8) • Raphael Holinshed


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