1894 Brewer’s / I / Iapetos
The father of Atlas and ancestor of the human race, called genus Iäpʹeti, the progeny of Iapetus (Greek and Latin mythology). By many considered the same as Japheth, one of the sons of Noah.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.