Phorcus | Phorcys, yos | Phorcyn, ȳnos | Phorcys, ydos | Phorcis, ĭdos and ĭdis | Phorcȳnis (noun M.f.f) : (also , , and , , acc. to Prisc. p. 690 P., but acc. to Serv., Verg. A. 5, 240, these forms are not used in Lat.), , = Φόρκος, Φόρκυς, and Φόρκυν
* Son of Neptune, father of Medusa and the other Gorgons, and of the Groeoe, who was changed after death into a sea-god, Cic. Univ. 11, 35: Phorci chorus,Verg. A. 5, 240; or, Phorci exercitus,i. e. sea-gods,id. ib. 5, 824: pater Phorcys,Val. Fl. 3, 726; Luc. 9, 645.—Hence
* (, ĭdis), , a female descendant of Phorcus: ora Phorcydos,i. e. of Medusa,Prop. 3, 21 (4, 22), 8: geminas habitasse sorores Phorcydas unius partitas luminis usum,i. e. the Groeoe,Ov. M. 4, 773.
* The daughter of Phorcus, i. e. Medu- sa, Ov. M. 5, 230; Luc. 9, 626.