Asteroid 181279, Iapyx, a Jupiter Trojan, was discovered on January 22, 2006 by French astronomer Jean-Claude Merlin at Tenagra II Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, USA. It has a period of 11 years, 313 days.
It was named for Iapyx, a Trojan battle surgeon during the Trojan War, who left for Italy after Troy's defeat and founded Apulia.
Vergil describes in Book 12 of The Aeneid how Iapyx, with the aid of Aphrodite, removed an embedded arrowhead from Aeneas' thigh in the battle with the Latins:
Iapis first perceiv'd the closing wound,
And first the footsteps of a god he found.
"Arms! arms!" he cries; "the sword and shield prepare,
And send the willing chief, renew'd, to war.
This is no mortal work, no cure of mine,
Nor art's effect, but done by hands divine.
Some god our general to the battle sends;
Some god preserves his life for greater ends."
Astrologically, Iapyx seems to indicate infection control (general concept), to purge of real or imagined bad moral or intellectual influences, herbal remedies, self-healing or the power of mind, prayer, spiritual energy or divine intervention to heal.
An ancient Roman fresco of Iapyx removing an arrowhead from Aeneas' leg.