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Aegyptus

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Aegyptus (ējĭp`təs): see Danaüs Danaüs , in Greek mythology, son of Belus and Anchinoe and twin of Aegyptus. Danaüs, who had 50 daughters, the Danaïds, and Aegyptus, who had 50 sons, ruled Libya and Arabia.
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Aegyptus
fathered 50 sons, who married the daughters of his twin brother Danaus. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 11]


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Fragment #17 -- Hecataeus (15) in Scholiast on Euripides, Orestes, 872: Aegyptus himself did not go to Argos, but sent his sons, fifty in number, as Hesiod represented.
 
 
 
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