MOPSUS  , in

Greek legend, the name of two seers . (r) Son of Ampyx (or Ampycus) and the nymph Chloris, a Lapith of Oechalia in Thessaly . He took part in the Calydonian boar hunt and accompanied the Argonauts as their prophet . He died from the bite of a serpent which sprang from the blood of the Gorgon Medusa . He is represented on the chest of Cypselus as boxing with Admetus . He was afterwards worshipped as a hero and an oracle was consecrated to him . (2) Son of Rhacius (or Apollo) and Manto, daughter of Teiresias . The rival seer Calchas is said to have died of chagrin because the predictions of Mopsus were fulfilled, while his own proved incorrect . Together with another seer, Amphilochus, Mopsus founded Mallus in Cilicia, after the return from Troy; and in a quarrel for its possession both lost their lives . According to Pausanias (vii . 3, 2) Mopsus expelled the native inhabitants of Caria, and built the town of Colophon . Mopsus was worshipped as a god by the Cilicians, and had two famous oracles at Colophon and Mallus .

His name survives in the town of Mopsuestia (Mby'ou 'Ecria) and the

spring of Mopsucrene . Mopsus appears to be the incarnation of Apollo of Claros .