LAMUS

1. A son of Poseidon, was king of the Laestrygones. (Hom. Od. x. 81; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1649; Horat. Curm. iii. 17, 1; comp. LAMIUS.)

2. The god of the Boeotian or Cilician river Lamus. His sons and daughters, the Lamides, nursed the god Dionysus.