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Definition of: Lycaon
(lī·kā′on)
In Greek mythology, a king of Arcadia and father of Callisto, who, when Zeus sought his hospitality disguised as a poor man, tested the god's divinity by offering him human flesh as food: Zeus transformed him into a wolf. [<Gk. Lykaōn <lykos wolf]
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