Arabius (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Arabius or Arabus (Ancient Greek: Ἀράβιος or Ἄραβος^[1]) may refer to the following distinct or identical individuals:

Arabius, eponym of Arabia, and the son of Hermes and Thronia, daughter of King Belus of Egypt.^[2] He fathered Cassiopeia, wife of King Phoenix of Phoenicia.^[3]^[4]
Arabus, son of Apollo and Babylon.^[5]^[6] He may also be the same as the above.

^ Strabo, 1.2.34 (Greek)
^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr.15; Strabo, 1.2.34
^ Antoninus Liberalis, 40
^ Gantz, p. 208.
^ Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 19.
^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.56–57 p. 196