It evidently
belonged
to a period when the art of 298, &c.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
C.
Gesch. d. Römischen Beredtsamkeit, § 86; Meyer, 432; and his grandson, another Leagrus, is ridi-
Oratorum Roman. Fragmenta, p. 539, &c. , 2d ed. ) culed in a passage of the comic poet Plato (ap.
LAVERNA, the protecting divinity of thieves Athen. ii. p. 68, c. ), as a highborn fool.
and impostors ; a grove was sacred to her on the
via Salaria, and she had an altar near the porta
ουχ ορας ότι
Lavernalis, which derived its name from her. (Ar- ο μέν Λέαγρος Γλαύκωνος μεγάλου γένους
nob. adv. Gent. jii. 26 ; Nonius, vii. 6; Acron, κόκκυξ ηλίθιος περιέρχεται.
ad Horat. Ep. i. 16, 60 ; Varro, De L. L. v. 163 ;
Fest. s. v. Larerniones. ) The name of this divi- | A sister his was married to Callias III. , son of
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LEARCHUS.
727
LEDA.
waves,
Hipponicus (Andoc. Myst. p. 126, Bekk. ), so that Clearchi of Rhegium, one near the beginning, and
the genealogy stands thus,
the other at the end of the Daedalian period, or
Glaucon I.
else we must account for the statement of Pausanias
1
by supposing that, as often happens, a vague tradi-
Leagrus I.
tion affixed the name of a well-known ancient
artist to a work whose true origin was lost in re-
Glaucon II.
mote antiquity.
2. Some recently discovered painted vases, in
the collection of the Prince of Canino at Rome,
Leagrus II. a daughter=Callias III. bear the name of Lcarchus of Rhegium. It is in-
[A. H. C. ) ferred from the inscriptions that there were two
LEANDER (Aelavopos), the famous youth of vase painters of this name. (Nagler, Neues Allge-
Abydos, who, from love of Hero, the priestess of meines Künstler Lexicon, s. v. )
[P. S. )
Aphrodite, in Sestus, swam every night across the LECANIUS, J. C. One of the consuls in
Hellespont, being guided by the light of the light. 4. D. 65 (Tac. Ann. xv. 3; Fasti), and probably
house of Sestus. Once during a very stormy night the same person with Q. Lecanius Bassus, a con-
the light was extinguished, and he perished in the temporary of the elder Pliny, who died from punc-
On the next morning his corpse was turing a carbuncle on his left hand. (Plin. II. N.
washed on the coast of Sestus, and Hero, on seeing xxvi. 1 (4); comp. Ryckius ad Tac. Ann. xv. 3. )
it, threw herself into the sea. This story is the
2. A soldier, one of the several persons to whom
subject of the epic poem of Musaeus, entitled De Galba's death-blow was attributed, A. D. 69. (Tac.
Amore Herois et Leandri, and is also mentioned by Hist. i. 41. )
(W. B. D. )
Ovid (Her. xviii. 19), Statius (Theb. vi. 535), and
LECA'NIUS AREIUS. (AREIUS. )
Virgil (Georg. iii. 258, &c. )
[L. S. )
LECAPENUS, GEORGIUS. [GEORGIUS,
LEANDER or LEANDRIUS (Aéavopos or No. 30. )
Aeávopios), of Miletus, seems to have been the LECHEATES (Aexeáts) i. e. the protector
author of a work on the history of his native city. of childbed, a surname Zeus, who, as the father
A few quotations from it are still extant, but of Athena, was worshipped under this name at
we have no means of determining the age at Aliphera. (Paus. viii. 26. § 4. ) (L. S. ]
which Leander lived. (Diog. Laert. i. 28, 41;
LECHES (Λέχης), a son of Poscidon and
Clem. Alex. Protrept. p. 13, Strom. i. p. 129, vi. Peirene, and brother of Cenchrias. (Paus. ii. 2.
p. 267; Euseb. Praep. Ev. ii. p. 45; Theodoret. $ 3, 24. $ 7. )
[L. S. ]
Therap. i. p. 700, viii. p. 909; Schol. ad Apollon. LEDA (Anda), a daughter of Thestius, whence
Rhod. ii. 706. )
[L. S. ]
she is called Thestias ( Apollod. iii. 10. $ 5; Paus.
LEANEIRA. [APHEIDAS. ]
iii. 13. $ 8; Eurip. Iph. A ul. 49); but others call
LEARCHUS. (ATHAMAS. ]
her a daughter of Thespius, Thyestes, or Glaucus,
LEARCH US (Réapxos). 1. Of Rhegium, is by Laophonte, Deidamia, Leucippe, Eurythemis, or
one of those Daedalian artists who stand on the Paneidyia. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 146, 201 ;
confines of the mythical and historical periods, and Serv. ad Aen. viii. 130 ; Hygin, Fub. 14 ; Apollod.
about whom we have extremely uncertain inform- i. 7. § 10. ). She was the wife of Tyndareus, by
ation. One account made him a pupil of Daedalus, whom she became the mother of Timandra, Cly-
another of Dipoenus and Scyllis. (Paus. ii. 17. taemnestra, and Philonoe. (Apollod. iii. 10. $ 6;
$ 6. ) Pausanias saw, in the Brazen House at Hom. Od. xxiv. 199. ) One night she was embraced
Sparta, a statue of Zeus by him, which was made both by her husband and by Zeus, and by the former
of separate pieces of hammered bronze, fastened she became the mother of Castor and Clytaem-
together with nails. Pausanias adds, that this was nestra, and by the latter of Polydeuces and Helena.
the most ancient of all existing statues in bronze. (Hygin. Fab. 77. ) According to Homer (Od. xi.
It evidently belonged to a period when the art of 298, &c. ) both Castor and Polydeuces were sons
casting in bronze was not yet known. But this is of Tyndareus and Leda, while Helena is described
inconsistent with the account which made Learchus as a daughter of Zeus. (Il. iii. 426 ; comp. Ov.
the pupil of Dipoenus and Scyllis, for these artists Fast. i. 706 ; Horat. Carm. i. 12, 25 ; Martial, i.
are said to have been the inventors of sculpture in 37. ) Other traditions reverse the story, making
marble, an art which is generally admitted to have Castor and Polydeuces the sons of Zeus, and
had a later origin than that of casting in bronze. Helena the daughter of Tyndareus. (Eurip. Helen.
Moreover, Rhoecus and Theodorus, the inventors 254, 1497, 1680; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. ii. 808 ;
of casting in bronze, are placed about the beginning Herod. ii. 112. ) According to the common legend
of the Olympiads. Learchus must, therefore, have Zeus visited Leda in the disguise of a swan, and
flourished still earlier ; but the date of Dipoenus she produced two eggs, from the one of which issued
and Scyllis is, according to the only account we Helena, and from the other Castor and Polydeuces.
have of it, about 200 years later. (DIPOEYUS. ) (Schol. ad Eurip. Orest, 453 ; 0v. Her. xvii. 55 ;
The difficulty is rather increased than diminished Paus. iii. 16. $1; Horat. Ars Poet. 147 ; Athen.
if we substitute for Aéapxov, in the passage of ii. p. 57, &c. , ix. p. 373 ; Lucian, Dial. Deor. ii.
Pausanias, Kéapxov, wbich is probably the true 2, xxiv. 2, xxvi. ; comp. Virgil, Cir. 489 ; Tzetz.
reading. (See the editions of Schubart and Walz, ad Lycoph. 88. ) The visit of Zeus to Leda in the
and Bekker. ) In another passage, Pausanias form of a swan was frequently represented by
mentions (vi. 4. & 2) Clearchus of Rhegium as the ancient artists. It should be observed that Phoebe
instructor of Pythagoras of Rhegium, and the is also mentioned as a daughter of Tyndareus and
pupil of Eucheirus of Corinth. This Clearchus Leda (Eurip. Iph. Aul. 50), and that, according to
must therefore have lived about B. c. 500, eighty Lactantius (i. 21. ), Leda was after her death raised
years later than Dipoenus and Scyllis. We must
to the rank of a divinity, under the name of
therefore either assume the existence of two | Nemesis. (Comp. TYNDAREUS. ) (L. S. )
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LENTULUS.
LEMURES,
LEJO’DES (Acúsns), one of the suitors of | 419, &c. ; comp. Hartung, Die Relig. der Röm. i.
Penelope, was slain by Odysseus. (Hom. Od. xxi. p. 55, &c. )
(LS. )
144, xxii. 328. )
[L. S. ] LENAEUS (Anvaſos), a surname of Dionysus,
LEIS. (ALTIEPUS. ]
derived from anvós, the wine-press or the vintage.
LEITUS (1011tos), a son of Alector or Alectryon, (Hesych. s. v. ; Virg. Gcorg. ii. 4. 529; Dict. of
by Cleobule, and father of Penelcus. (Apollod. Ant. s. v. Lenaea. )
(L. S. )
ji. 10. 8 8 ; Diod. iv. 67. ) He is mentioned among LENAEUS, a freedman of Pompey the Great,
the Argonauts (Apollod. i. 9. § 10), and com- whence he is sometimes called Pompeius Lenaeus.
manded the Boeotians in the war against Troy He was a native of Athens, possessed great know-
(Hom. I. ii. 494, xvii. 602 ; Paus. ix. 4. § 3). {ledge of natural history, and was acquainted with
from whence he took with him the remains of several languages, in consequence of which Pompey
Aro us. (Paus. ix. 39. § 3. ) Dis tomb was restored him to freedom. (Sueton. De Illustr.
shown in later times at Platacac. (Paus. ix. 4. $ (irammat. 2, 15; Plin. H. N. xxv. 2, 3. ) He ac-
3 ; comp. llygin. Fab. 97. )
(L. S. ) companied his pritron in nearly all his expeditions
LELEX (német). 1. One of the original in- (Suet. I. c. 15), and by his command he translated
habitants of Laconia which was called after him, into Latin the work of Mithridates on poisons.
its first king, Lelegia. He was married to the (I'lin. I. c. , comp. xv. 30, 39, xxiv. 9, 41, xxv. 6,
Naiad Clenchareia, by whom lie became the father 27, and Elench. lib. xiv. xv. xx. xxiii. xxvji. )
of Myles, Polycaon, and Eurotas. Ile had a herouin After the death of Pompy and his sons, Lenacus
at Sparta. (Apollod. iii 10. $ 3 ; Paus. iii. 1. $ 1. maintained himself by keeping a school at Rome,
12. $ 4, iv. 1. $2. ) Sonie cill his wife Peridia, in the Carinae, near the temple of Tellus, the dis-
and his children Myles, Polyclon, Bomolochus, and trict in which the house of Pompey had been. This
Therapne; while Eurotas is represented as a son of fact is a proof not only of his great attachment to
Myles and a grandson of Lelex. (Schol. ad Eurip. the memory of his late master, but also of his not
Orrst. 615. ) In other traditions, again, Lelex is having made use of his friendship with Pompey for
described as a son of Spartiis, and as the father of the purpose of enriching himself. His affection for
Amyclas. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Aake aipwv. ) Pompey also led him to write a very bitter satire
2. A son of Poseidon and Libya, the daughter against the historian Sallust, who had spoken of
of Epaphus. He was regarded as the ancestor of Pompey an unjust and slanderous manner.
Gesch. d. Römischen Beredtsamkeit, § 86; Meyer, 432; and his grandson, another Leagrus, is ridi-
Oratorum Roman. Fragmenta, p. 539, &c. , 2d ed. ) culed in a passage of the comic poet Plato (ap.
LAVERNA, the protecting divinity of thieves Athen. ii. p. 68, c. ), as a highborn fool.
and impostors ; a grove was sacred to her on the
via Salaria, and she had an altar near the porta
ουχ ορας ότι
Lavernalis, which derived its name from her. (Ar- ο μέν Λέαγρος Γλαύκωνος μεγάλου γένους
nob. adv. Gent. jii. 26 ; Nonius, vii. 6; Acron, κόκκυξ ηλίθιος περιέρχεται.
ad Horat. Ep. i. 16, 60 ; Varro, De L. L. v. 163 ;
Fest. s. v. Larerniones. ) The name of this divi- | A sister his was married to Callias III. , son of
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LEARCHUS.
727
LEDA.
waves,
Hipponicus (Andoc. Myst. p. 126, Bekk. ), so that Clearchi of Rhegium, one near the beginning, and
the genealogy stands thus,
the other at the end of the Daedalian period, or
Glaucon I.
else we must account for the statement of Pausanias
1
by supposing that, as often happens, a vague tradi-
Leagrus I.
tion affixed the name of a well-known ancient
artist to a work whose true origin was lost in re-
Glaucon II.
mote antiquity.
2. Some recently discovered painted vases, in
the collection of the Prince of Canino at Rome,
Leagrus II. a daughter=Callias III. bear the name of Lcarchus of Rhegium. It is in-
[A. H. C. ) ferred from the inscriptions that there were two
LEANDER (Aelavopos), the famous youth of vase painters of this name. (Nagler, Neues Allge-
Abydos, who, from love of Hero, the priestess of meines Künstler Lexicon, s. v. )
[P. S. )
Aphrodite, in Sestus, swam every night across the LECANIUS, J. C. One of the consuls in
Hellespont, being guided by the light of the light. 4. D. 65 (Tac. Ann. xv. 3; Fasti), and probably
house of Sestus. Once during a very stormy night the same person with Q. Lecanius Bassus, a con-
the light was extinguished, and he perished in the temporary of the elder Pliny, who died from punc-
On the next morning his corpse was turing a carbuncle on his left hand. (Plin. II. N.
washed on the coast of Sestus, and Hero, on seeing xxvi. 1 (4); comp. Ryckius ad Tac. Ann. xv. 3. )
it, threw herself into the sea. This story is the
2. A soldier, one of the several persons to whom
subject of the epic poem of Musaeus, entitled De Galba's death-blow was attributed, A. D. 69. (Tac.
Amore Herois et Leandri, and is also mentioned by Hist. i. 41. )
(W. B. D. )
Ovid (Her. xviii. 19), Statius (Theb. vi. 535), and
LECA'NIUS AREIUS. (AREIUS. )
Virgil (Georg. iii. 258, &c. )
[L. S. )
LECAPENUS, GEORGIUS. [GEORGIUS,
LEANDER or LEANDRIUS (Aéavopos or No. 30. )
Aeávopios), of Miletus, seems to have been the LECHEATES (Aexeáts) i. e. the protector
author of a work on the history of his native city. of childbed, a surname Zeus, who, as the father
A few quotations from it are still extant, but of Athena, was worshipped under this name at
we have no means of determining the age at Aliphera. (Paus. viii. 26. § 4. ) (L. S. ]
which Leander lived. (Diog. Laert. i. 28, 41;
LECHES (Λέχης), a son of Poscidon and
Clem. Alex. Protrept. p. 13, Strom. i. p. 129, vi. Peirene, and brother of Cenchrias. (Paus. ii. 2.
p. 267; Euseb. Praep. Ev. ii. p. 45; Theodoret. $ 3, 24. $ 7. )
[L. S. ]
Therap. i. p. 700, viii. p. 909; Schol. ad Apollon. LEDA (Anda), a daughter of Thestius, whence
Rhod. ii. 706. )
[L. S. ]
she is called Thestias ( Apollod. iii. 10. $ 5; Paus.
LEANEIRA. [APHEIDAS. ]
iii. 13. $ 8; Eurip. Iph. A ul. 49); but others call
LEARCHUS. (ATHAMAS. ]
her a daughter of Thespius, Thyestes, or Glaucus,
LEARCH US (Réapxos). 1. Of Rhegium, is by Laophonte, Deidamia, Leucippe, Eurythemis, or
one of those Daedalian artists who stand on the Paneidyia. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 146, 201 ;
confines of the mythical and historical periods, and Serv. ad Aen. viii. 130 ; Hygin, Fub. 14 ; Apollod.
about whom we have extremely uncertain inform- i. 7. § 10. ). She was the wife of Tyndareus, by
ation. One account made him a pupil of Daedalus, whom she became the mother of Timandra, Cly-
another of Dipoenus and Scyllis. (Paus. ii. 17. taemnestra, and Philonoe. (Apollod. iii. 10. $ 6;
$ 6. ) Pausanias saw, in the Brazen House at Hom. Od. xxiv. 199. ) One night she was embraced
Sparta, a statue of Zeus by him, which was made both by her husband and by Zeus, and by the former
of separate pieces of hammered bronze, fastened she became the mother of Castor and Clytaem-
together with nails. Pausanias adds, that this was nestra, and by the latter of Polydeuces and Helena.
the most ancient of all existing statues in bronze. (Hygin. Fab. 77. ) According to Homer (Od. xi.
It evidently belonged to a period when the art of 298, &c. ) both Castor and Polydeuces were sons
casting in bronze was not yet known. But this is of Tyndareus and Leda, while Helena is described
inconsistent with the account which made Learchus as a daughter of Zeus. (Il. iii. 426 ; comp. Ov.
the pupil of Dipoenus and Scyllis, for these artists Fast. i. 706 ; Horat. Carm. i. 12, 25 ; Martial, i.
are said to have been the inventors of sculpture in 37. ) Other traditions reverse the story, making
marble, an art which is generally admitted to have Castor and Polydeuces the sons of Zeus, and
had a later origin than that of casting in bronze. Helena the daughter of Tyndareus. (Eurip. Helen.
Moreover, Rhoecus and Theodorus, the inventors 254, 1497, 1680; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. ii. 808 ;
of casting in bronze, are placed about the beginning Herod. ii. 112. ) According to the common legend
of the Olympiads. Learchus must, therefore, have Zeus visited Leda in the disguise of a swan, and
flourished still earlier ; but the date of Dipoenus she produced two eggs, from the one of which issued
and Scyllis is, according to the only account we Helena, and from the other Castor and Polydeuces.
have of it, about 200 years later. (DIPOEYUS. ) (Schol. ad Eurip. Orest, 453 ; 0v. Her. xvii. 55 ;
The difficulty is rather increased than diminished Paus. iii. 16. $1; Horat. Ars Poet. 147 ; Athen.
if we substitute for Aéapxov, in the passage of ii. p. 57, &c. , ix. p. 373 ; Lucian, Dial. Deor. ii.
Pausanias, Kéapxov, wbich is probably the true 2, xxiv. 2, xxvi. ; comp. Virgil, Cir. 489 ; Tzetz.
reading. (See the editions of Schubart and Walz, ad Lycoph. 88. ) The visit of Zeus to Leda in the
and Bekker. ) In another passage, Pausanias form of a swan was frequently represented by
mentions (vi. 4. & 2) Clearchus of Rhegium as the ancient artists. It should be observed that Phoebe
instructor of Pythagoras of Rhegium, and the is also mentioned as a daughter of Tyndareus and
pupil of Eucheirus of Corinth. This Clearchus Leda (Eurip. Iph. Aul. 50), and that, according to
must therefore have lived about B. c. 500, eighty Lactantius (i. 21. ), Leda was after her death raised
years later than Dipoenus and Scyllis. We must
to the rank of a divinity, under the name of
therefore either assume the existence of two | Nemesis. (Comp. TYNDAREUS. ) (L. S. )
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LENTULUS.
LEMURES,
LEJO’DES (Acúsns), one of the suitors of | 419, &c. ; comp. Hartung, Die Relig. der Röm. i.
Penelope, was slain by Odysseus. (Hom. Od. xxi. p. 55, &c. )
(LS. )
144, xxii. 328. )
[L. S. ] LENAEUS (Anvaſos), a surname of Dionysus,
LEIS. (ALTIEPUS. ]
derived from anvós, the wine-press or the vintage.
LEITUS (1011tos), a son of Alector or Alectryon, (Hesych. s. v. ; Virg. Gcorg. ii. 4. 529; Dict. of
by Cleobule, and father of Penelcus. (Apollod. Ant. s. v. Lenaea. )
(L. S. )
ji. 10. 8 8 ; Diod. iv. 67. ) He is mentioned among LENAEUS, a freedman of Pompey the Great,
the Argonauts (Apollod. i. 9. § 10), and com- whence he is sometimes called Pompeius Lenaeus.
manded the Boeotians in the war against Troy He was a native of Athens, possessed great know-
(Hom. I. ii. 494, xvii. 602 ; Paus. ix. 4. § 3). {ledge of natural history, and was acquainted with
from whence he took with him the remains of several languages, in consequence of which Pompey
Aro us. (Paus. ix. 39. § 3. ) Dis tomb was restored him to freedom. (Sueton. De Illustr.
shown in later times at Platacac. (Paus. ix. 4. $ (irammat. 2, 15; Plin. H. N. xxv. 2, 3. ) He ac-
3 ; comp. llygin. Fab. 97. )
(L. S. ) companied his pritron in nearly all his expeditions
LELEX (német). 1. One of the original in- (Suet. I. c. 15), and by his command he translated
habitants of Laconia which was called after him, into Latin the work of Mithridates on poisons.
its first king, Lelegia. He was married to the (I'lin. I. c. , comp. xv. 30, 39, xxiv. 9, 41, xxv. 6,
Naiad Clenchareia, by whom lie became the father 27, and Elench. lib. xiv. xv. xx. xxiii. xxvji. )
of Myles, Polycaon, and Eurotas. Ile had a herouin After the death of Pompy and his sons, Lenacus
at Sparta. (Apollod. iii 10. $ 3 ; Paus. iii. 1. $ 1. maintained himself by keeping a school at Rome,
12. $ 4, iv. 1. $2. ) Sonie cill his wife Peridia, in the Carinae, near the temple of Tellus, the dis-
and his children Myles, Polyclon, Bomolochus, and trict in which the house of Pompey had been. This
Therapne; while Eurotas is represented as a son of fact is a proof not only of his great attachment to
Myles and a grandson of Lelex. (Schol. ad Eurip. the memory of his late master, but also of his not
Orrst. 615. ) In other traditions, again, Lelex is having made use of his friendship with Pompey for
described as a son of Spartiis, and as the father of the purpose of enriching himself. His affection for
Amyclas. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Aake aipwv. ) Pompey also led him to write a very bitter satire
2. A son of Poseidon and Libya, the daughter against the historian Sallust, who had spoken of
of Epaphus. He was regarded as the ancestor of Pompey an unjust and slanderous manner.
