King of Lemnos, father of Hypsipyle, whom she alone spared when the Lemnian women murdered their husbands; fishermen dragged him alive to Oinoe, which thereafter was called Sicinus.1
Apollodorus makes Thoas king of Lemnos when the Lemnian women, angered by Aphrodite's curse and their husbands' Thracian concubines, slew every man on the island; Hypsipyle alone saved her father.2
Apollonius tells how Hypsipyle sent Thoas in a hollow chest to drift over the sea, if haply he should escape; and fishermen dragged him to shore at the island of Oinoe, formerly Oinoe, but thereafter called Sicinus from the man saved.3
Homer knows Lemnos as the city of godlike Thoas when Hera sped to the island seeking Sleep — a kingly name on the sacred isle where Philoctetes later lay in anguish.4
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