Iapyx
The god wanted to confer upon him the gift of prophecy, the lyre, etc.
; but Iapyx, wishing to prolong the life of his father, preferred the more tranquil art of healing to all the others.
Virgil's Aeneid (XII: 391–402) relates that Iapyx was Aeneas's healer during the Trojan War and then escaped to Italy after the war, founding Apulia.
Virgil relates this Iapyx to the wind that carried the fleeing Cleopatra home to Egypt after her loss at the battle of Actium.
[5] Horace[6] prays that Iapyx may safely carry his friend Virgil's ship to Greece.
Iapyx removing an arrowhead from the leg of
Aeneas
, with Aeneas's son, Ascanius (or Iulus), crying beside him.