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Syceus

In Greek mythology, Syceus (Ancient Greek: Συκεύς, Sykeus, from συκέα meaning "fig-tree") was a Titan son of Gaia (Earth) and eponym of the city of Sykea in Cilicia.

Only Athenaeus in his Deipnosophistae mentioned Sykeus' myth with his source being Tryphon's Of Plants (or Names of Plants) and Androtion's Farmers' Handbook:

Sykeus, one of the Titans, was pursued by Zeus and taken under the protection of his mother, Earth, and that she caused the plant [the fig] to grow for her son's pleasure.

— Deipnosophistae

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