Πόλυβος

Bahuvrīhi compound of πολυ- (polu-, “many”) +‎ βοῦς (boûs, “ox”), literally “having many cattle”.

Πόλῠβος • (Pólubos) m (genitive Πολῠ́βου); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Polybus — famously held by:
   1. a son of King Priam’s counsellor, Antenor, killed in the Trojan War by Neoptolemus
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.59
   2. an Egyptian
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.126
   3. the father of the Ithacan nobleman, Eurymachus
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.519
   4. a suitor of Penelope (the wife of Odysseus)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.243
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.284
   5. a Phaeacian
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.373

• Πολῠ́βῐος (Polúbios)

• Greek: Πόλυβος (Pólyvos)
• Latin: Polybus

• “Πόλυβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Πόλυβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022

• Polybus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia