1. Pălīci, ōrum (sing.: Pălīcus, i, m., Verg. A. 9, 585; Ov. P. 2, 10, 25), m., the sons of Jupiter and the nymph Thalia or Ætna; they were worshipped at Palica in Sicily, where were a temple and two lakes sacred to them, as enforcers of oaths, promoters of fertility, and as sea-gods, Macr. S. 5, 19; Serv. Verg. A. 9, 584: stagna Palicorum, Ov. M. 5, 406; Stat. Th. 12, 155.