Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Atys 2.

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2. A son of Manes, king of the Maeonians, from whose son Lydus, his son and successor, the Maeonians were afterwards called Lydians. (Herod, i. 7, vii. 74.) Herodotus (i. 94; comp. Dionys. Hal. A. R. i. 26, 28; Tacit. Annal. iv. 55) mentions Tyrrhenus as another sob of Atys; and in another passage (iv. 45), he speaks of Cotys as the son of Manes, instead of Atys.