An orphan.
*)itu/los: o)rfano/s.
Son of Zethus and Aedon:
Homer,
Odyssey 19.522 (web address 1).
The gloss -- likewise or similarly in other lexica (e.g.
Hesychius iota1099) -- is uninformative, even misleading, as it stands. "Aedon [
alpha 651] was racked with envy of her sister Niobe [
nu 418], who rejoiced in the love of six sons and six daughters and, when trying to murder Sipylus, the eldest of them, she killed Itylus by mistake; whereupon Zeus transformed her into the Nightingale who, in early summer, nightly laments her murdered child" (Robert Graves,
The Greek Myths 2.27).
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