35 ;
he saw in the Acropolis at Athens a bronze statue Paus.
he saw in the Acropolis at Athens a bronze statue Paus.
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During
women. (Herod. ix. 5. ) The same story is related the expedition of Agathocles to Africa (2. C. 309),
of Cyrsilus at the invasion of Xerxes eleven years Lyciscus, being heated with wine at a banquet,
before (CYRSILUS]; and both tales probably refer assailed his master with abuse, which the latter
;
to only one event.
met only with good-humoured jesting. But Archa-
LYCINUS (Núrivos), an Italian Greek, an gathus, the son of Agathocles, was greatly exaspe-
exile from his native city, who entered the service rated ; and when Lyciscus, in answer to his threats
of Antigonus Gonatas, and was appointed by him after the banquet, threw in his teeth his suspected
to command the garrison, which he left in pos- intrigue with his step-mother Alcia, he seized a
session of Athens, after the termination of the Chre- spear and slew him. The consequence was a for-
monidean war, B. C. 263. (Teles, ap. Stobaeum, midable mutiny in the army, which it required all
Floril. ii. p. 82, ed. Gaisf. ; Droysen, Hellenism. vol. the boldness and prudence of Agathocles to quell.
ji. pp. 206, 222. ) Niebuhr conjectures, plausibly (Diod. xx. 33, 34. )
enough, that Lycinus was a native of Tarentum, 5. An Acarnanian, was sent by his countrymen
and had been compelled to fly from that city on its | as 'ambassador to the Lacedaemonians, B. c. 211
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LYCIUS.
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LYCOMEDES.
.
to urge them to ally themselves with Philip V. of | period. The group (which stood at Olympia, near
Macedon,—at any rate not to join the Roman and the Ilippodamion, and was dedicated by the people
Aetolian league. He defended the kings of Mace- of Apollonia, on the Ionian gulf), had for its found-
donia from the attack of CHLAENEAS, and dwelt ation a semicircular base of marble, in the middle
on the danger of allowing the Romans to gain a of the upper part of which was the statue of Zeus,
footing in Greece and on the indignity of the de- with Thetis and Hemera (Aurora) supplicating
scendants of those who had repulsed Xerxes and him on behalf of their sons Achilles and Mennon.
his barbarians becoming now the confederates of Those heroes stood below, in the attitude of com-
olher barbarians against Greeks. (Pol. ix. 32— batants, in the angles of the semicircle ; and the
39. )
space between them was occupied four pairs of
6. Ar. Aetolian, a partisan of Rome, was made Greek and Trojan chieftains, -Ulysses opposed to
general of the Actolians, in B. c. 171, through the Helenus, they being the wisest men of either amy,
in Nuence of Q. Marcius and A. Atilius, two of the Alexander to Menelaus, on account of their original
Roman commissioners sent to Greece in that year, enmity, Aeneas to Diomed, and Deiphobus to the
(Lir. xlii. 38. ) In B. c. 167, the Actolians com- Telamonian Ajax. It is most probable that, though
plained to Aemilius Paullus, then making a pro- the base was of marble, the statues were of bronze.
gress through Greece, that Lyciscus and Tisippus A vase has been recently discovered at Agrigentum,
had caused 550 of their senators to be slain by by Politi, the painting on which seems to be an
Ronian soldiers, lent them by Baebius for the pur- imitation of this group. (Real-Encyclopädie d.
pose, while they had driven others into banishment Class. Alterthumswissenschaft, s. v. )
and seized their property. But the murder and The question has been raised whether Lycius
violence had been perpetrated against partisans of was not also a chaser of gold or silver cups. The
Perseus and opponents of Rome, and the Roman fact is probable enough, for the great artists fre-
commissioners at Amphipolis decided that Lycis- quently executed such minute works, and cups by
cus and Tisippus were justified in what they had Myron, the father of Lycius, are expressly men-
done. Baebius only was condemned for having tioned by Martial (vi. 92, viii. 51); but the actual
supplied Roman soldiers as the instruments of the authority on which the statement rests can hardly
murder. (Liv. xlv. 28, 31. ) [Baebius, No. bear it out. Demosthenes (c. Timoth. p. 1193)
5. ]
[E. E. ] mentions φιαλας λυκουργείς (or λυκιουργείς), which
LYCISCUS, a statuary, who made “ Lagonem the grammarian Didymus explained as cups made
puerum subdolae ac fucatae vernilitatis. ” (Plin. by Lycius, not being a ware, as Polemon objects (ap.
H. N. xxxiv. 8. 6. 19. § 17. )
(P. S. ) Ath. xi. p. 486, e. ), that such compounds are not
LYCIUS (Aukios), i. e. the Lycian, a surname formed from names of persons, but from names of
of Apollo, who was worshipped in several places of | places, like Ναξιουργής κάνθαρος, δίφρος Μιλη-
Lycia, and had a sanctuary and oracle at Patara in σιουργής, κλίνη Χιουργής, and τράπεζα Ρηνιοεργής.
Licia. (Pind. Pyth. i. 39 ; Propert. iii. 1. 38 ; Polemon explains the word as meaning made in
Virg. Aen. iv. 143, 346, 377. ) Ii must, however, Lycia, like the mpokódovs Avroepyéas mentioned
be observed, that Lycius is often used in the sense by Herodotus (vii. 76), and in this he is followed
of Lyceius, and in allusion to his being the slayer by Harpocration (s. v. ), and by most modern
of wolves. (Comp. Serv. ad Aen. iv. 377, who scholars. (See Valckenaer ad Herod. l. c. ) The
gives several other explanations of the name ; Paus. style of Lycius probably resembled that of his
ii. 9. $ 7, 19. $ 3; Philostr. Her. x. 4 ; Eustath. father.
[P. S. )
ad Hom. p. 354. )
LYCOA'TIS (Aukoatis), a surname of Artemis,
Lycius also occurs as the proper name of two who had a temple at Lycoa, in Arcadia. (Paus.
mythical beings, one a son of Lycaon (Apollod. iii. viii. 36. $ 5. )
8), and the other a son of Pandion. (Paus. i. 19. LYCOʻCTONUS. [LYCEIUS. ]
§ 4. )
[L. S. ] LYCO’LEON (Aukonéwv), an Athenian orator,
LY'CIUS (^úkios), of Eleutherne, in Boeotia, and a disciple of Isocrates, is mentioned only by
was a distinguished statuary, whom Pliny mentions Aristotle (Rhet. iii. 10), who quotes a fragment of
as only the disciple, while Pausanias and Polemon an oration of bis UTèp Xabpiou. As in that frag-
make him the son, of Mvron. He must, therefore, ment mention is made of the bronze statue which
have flourished about Ol. 92, B. C. 428. (Plin. was erected to Chabrias (Diod. xv. 33 ; Nep. Chab.
H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19; Ibid, § 17 ; Paus. i. 23. S1), it is evident that that oration must have been
7, v. 22. $ 3 ; Polemon, ap. Ath. xi. p. 486, d ; delivered after the year B. c. 377. [L. S. )
Suid. s. v. ; respecting the true reading of the second LYCOME'DES (Auroundns). 1. A king of
passage of Pliny, see Hegesias, p. 368, b. ) Pliny the Dolopians, in the island of Scyros, near Eu-
mentions as his works a group of the Argonauts, boea, father of Deidameia, and grand father of Pyr-
and a boy blowing up an expiring flame : “a work rhus or Neoptolemus. (Apollod. iii. 13. 8 8. ) Once
worthy of his teacher. " Ai the erd of the same when Theseus came to him, Lycomedes, dreading
section Pliny adds, “Lycius (for so the best the influence of the stranger upon his own subiects,
MSS. rend, not Lycus) et ipse puerum suffitorem,” | thrust him down a rock. Some related that the
which we take to be obviously an after insertion, cause of this violence was, that Lycomedes would
made with Pliny's frequent carelessness, and de- not give up the estates which Theseus had in
scribing nothing else than the “puerum sufflantem" | Scyros, or the circumstance that Lycomedes wanted
mentioned by him above. Pausanias states that to gain the favour of Menestheus. (Plut. Thes.
35 ;
he saw in the Acropolis at Athens a bronze statue Paus. i. 17, in fin. ; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 1324 ;
by Lycius, of a boy holding a sprinkling vessel Soph. Phil. 243; Apollod. iii. 13. )
(tepippavtýpov). Pausanias (v. 22. $ 2) also men- 2. A son of Creon, one of the Greek warriors at
tions a group by Lycius, which is exceedingly in. Troy (Hom. Il. ix. 8+); he was represented as a
teresting as a specimen of the arrangement of the wounded man by Polygnotus in the Lesche at
figures in a great work of statuary of the best Delphi. (Paus. 1. 25. § 2. )
8
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LYCOMEDES.
LYCON.
3. A son of A pollo and Parthenope (Paus. vii. involving a breach of their connection with Sparta;
4. & 2. )
[L. S. ) but they afterwards consented to it on the ground
LYCOME'DES (Nukouhons). 1. An Athenian, that it was as much for the advantage of Lacedae
bon of Aeschreas, was the first Greek who captured mon as of Athens that Arcadia should be indepen-
a Persian ship at Artemisium, in B. C. 480, on dent of Thebes. Lycomedes, on his return by sea
which occasion he gained the prize of valour. (Her. from Athens, desired to be put on shore at a ceruin
viii. 11. ) He was perhaps the same as the father portion of the Peloponnesian const, where there
of the Athenian general Archestratus, mentioned happened to be collected a number of Arcadian
by Thucydides (i. 57). Lycomedes was also the exiles; and by these he was murdered. (Xen. Ilell.
name of the father of Cleomedes, one of the Athe- vii. 4. $S 2, 3. ) [CALLISTRATU'S, No. 3. )
nian commanders against Melos in B. C. 416. (Thuc. 3. A Rhodian, was appointed to command the
v. 84. )
Persian garrison placed in Mytilene by Autophra-
2. A Mantinean, according to Xenophon and dates and the younger Pharnabazus, in B. c. 333.
Pausanias, wealthy, high-born, and ambitious. In the ensuing year the Persian garrisons were
Diodorus calls him in one passage a Tegean ; but dislodged from the islands in the Aegnean by
there can be no question (though Wesseling would Alexander's officer, Hegelochus. (Arr. Anal. ii.
raise one) of the identity of this Lycomedes with 1, iii. 2 ; Curt. iv. 5. )
the Arcadian general whom he elsewhere speaks 4. Priest of the goddess Enyo or Bellona at
of as a Mantinean. (Xen. IIell. vii. 1. $ 23; Paus. Coman, and sovereign, therefore, of the surround-
viii. 27 ; Diod. xv. 59, 62 ; Wess. ad Diod. xv. ing country. He was an adherent of Antony, and
59 ; Schneider, au I'en. llell. vi. 5. $ 3. ) We first was deposed by Augustus after the battle of Ac-
hear of him as one of the chief founders of Mega- tium, B. C. 30. (Strab. xii. p. 558 ; Dion Cass. li.
lopolis in B. c. 370, and Diodorus (xv. 59. ) tells us 2 ; comp. App. Mithr. 114. )
[E. E. ]
that he was the author of the plan, though the LYCON (Aúkww), the name of two mythical
words of Pausanias (viii. 27, ix. 14. ) would seem personages, one, a son of Hippocoon, was killed by
to ascribe the origination of it to Epaminondas. Heracles (Apollod. iii. 10. $ 5; Hippocoon), and
(Comp. Arist. Pol. ii. 2, ed. Bekk. ; Xen. Hell. vi. the other a Trojan. (Hom. Il. xvi. 335. ) (L. S. ]
5. § 6, &c. ) In B. c. 369 Lycomedes was general LYCON (Auswv), historical. 1. An orator
of the Arcadians and defeated, near Orchomenus, and demagogue at Athens, was one of the three
the forces of the Lacedaemonians under Polytropus. accusers of Socrates and prepared the case against
(Xen. Hell. vi. 5. § 14 ; Diod. xv. 62. ) In the him. According to Stallbaum, Lycon was one of
following year we find symptoms of a rising jea- the ten regular advocates (ouvyopoi) employed
lousy towards Thebes on the part of the Arcadians, by the state to conduct public prosecutions ;
owing in great measure to the suggestions and ex- but there seems to be no authority for this state-
hortations of Lycomedes, who reminded his coun- ment. When the Athenians repented of their
trymen of their ancient descent as the children of condemnation of Socrates, they put Melitus to
the soil, of their numbers, their high military qua- death and banished Anytus and Lycon. (Plat.
lifications, and of the fact that their support was Apol. p. 23, e ; Stallb. ad loc. ; Ding. Laërt. ii.
quite as important to Thebes as it had been to 38, 39, 43 ; Menag. ad loc. ) The Lycon, who is
Lacedaemon ; and it is possible that the spirit thus mentioned by Aristophanes (Vesp. 1301) as a
roused and fostered in Arcadia may have shortened drunken brawler, has been identified by some with
the stay of Epaminondas in the Peloponnesus on the accuser of Socrates (Stallb. l. c. ; Kühner, and
this his second invasion of it. The vigour exhibited | Xen. Mem. i. 1. $ 1); and, if we may believe the
in consequence by the Arcadians under Lycomedes scholiast on Plato (Apol. l. c. ), the latter was also
and the successes they met with are mentioned by the same person as the husband of the notoriously
Xenophon and Diodorus, the latter of whom how- profligate Rhodia, satirized by Eupolis. From the
ever places these events a year too soon. Thus it same authority we learn that he was an Ionian by
was in B. c. 369, according to him, that Lycomedes descent, belonged to the demus of Thoricus, and
marched against Pellene in Laconia, and, having was noted for his poverty by Cratinus in the Autim,
taken it, made slaves of the inhabitants and ravaged |(Arist. Lysistr. 270 ; Schol. ad loc. ; Schn. Praef.
the country. (Xen. Hell. vii
. 1. $$ 23, &c. ; Diod. ad Xen. Anab. p. xxxii ; Meineke, Fragm. Com.
xv. 67 ; Wess. ad loc. ) The same spirit of inde Graec. vol. i. p. 117, ii.
women. (Herod. ix. 5. ) The same story is related the expedition of Agathocles to Africa (2. C. 309),
of Cyrsilus at the invasion of Xerxes eleven years Lyciscus, being heated with wine at a banquet,
before (CYRSILUS]; and both tales probably refer assailed his master with abuse, which the latter
;
to only one event.
met only with good-humoured jesting. But Archa-
LYCINUS (Núrivos), an Italian Greek, an gathus, the son of Agathocles, was greatly exaspe-
exile from his native city, who entered the service rated ; and when Lyciscus, in answer to his threats
of Antigonus Gonatas, and was appointed by him after the banquet, threw in his teeth his suspected
to command the garrison, which he left in pos- intrigue with his step-mother Alcia, he seized a
session of Athens, after the termination of the Chre- spear and slew him. The consequence was a for-
monidean war, B. C. 263. (Teles, ap. Stobaeum, midable mutiny in the army, which it required all
Floril. ii. p. 82, ed. Gaisf. ; Droysen, Hellenism. vol. the boldness and prudence of Agathocles to quell.
ji. pp. 206, 222. ) Niebuhr conjectures, plausibly (Diod. xx. 33, 34. )
enough, that Lycinus was a native of Tarentum, 5. An Acarnanian, was sent by his countrymen
and had been compelled to fly from that city on its | as 'ambassador to the Lacedaemonians, B. c. 211
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845
LYCOMEDES.
.
to urge them to ally themselves with Philip V. of | period. The group (which stood at Olympia, near
Macedon,—at any rate not to join the Roman and the Ilippodamion, and was dedicated by the people
Aetolian league. He defended the kings of Mace- of Apollonia, on the Ionian gulf), had for its found-
donia from the attack of CHLAENEAS, and dwelt ation a semicircular base of marble, in the middle
on the danger of allowing the Romans to gain a of the upper part of which was the statue of Zeus,
footing in Greece and on the indignity of the de- with Thetis and Hemera (Aurora) supplicating
scendants of those who had repulsed Xerxes and him on behalf of their sons Achilles and Mennon.
his barbarians becoming now the confederates of Those heroes stood below, in the attitude of com-
olher barbarians against Greeks. (Pol. ix. 32— batants, in the angles of the semicircle ; and the
39. )
space between them was occupied four pairs of
6. Ar. Aetolian, a partisan of Rome, was made Greek and Trojan chieftains, -Ulysses opposed to
general of the Actolians, in B. c. 171, through the Helenus, they being the wisest men of either amy,
in Nuence of Q. Marcius and A. Atilius, two of the Alexander to Menelaus, on account of their original
Roman commissioners sent to Greece in that year, enmity, Aeneas to Diomed, and Deiphobus to the
(Lir. xlii. 38. ) In B. c. 167, the Actolians com- Telamonian Ajax. It is most probable that, though
plained to Aemilius Paullus, then making a pro- the base was of marble, the statues were of bronze.
gress through Greece, that Lyciscus and Tisippus A vase has been recently discovered at Agrigentum,
had caused 550 of their senators to be slain by by Politi, the painting on which seems to be an
Ronian soldiers, lent them by Baebius for the pur- imitation of this group. (Real-Encyclopädie d.
pose, while they had driven others into banishment Class. Alterthumswissenschaft, s. v. )
and seized their property. But the murder and The question has been raised whether Lycius
violence had been perpetrated against partisans of was not also a chaser of gold or silver cups. The
Perseus and opponents of Rome, and the Roman fact is probable enough, for the great artists fre-
commissioners at Amphipolis decided that Lycis- quently executed such minute works, and cups by
cus and Tisippus were justified in what they had Myron, the father of Lycius, are expressly men-
done. Baebius only was condemned for having tioned by Martial (vi. 92, viii. 51); but the actual
supplied Roman soldiers as the instruments of the authority on which the statement rests can hardly
murder. (Liv. xlv. 28, 31. ) [Baebius, No. bear it out. Demosthenes (c. Timoth. p. 1193)
5. ]
[E. E. ] mentions φιαλας λυκουργείς (or λυκιουργείς), which
LYCISCUS, a statuary, who made “ Lagonem the grammarian Didymus explained as cups made
puerum subdolae ac fucatae vernilitatis. ” (Plin. by Lycius, not being a ware, as Polemon objects (ap.
H. N. xxxiv. 8. 6. 19. § 17. )
(P. S. ) Ath. xi. p. 486, e. ), that such compounds are not
LYCIUS (Aukios), i. e. the Lycian, a surname formed from names of persons, but from names of
of Apollo, who was worshipped in several places of | places, like Ναξιουργής κάνθαρος, δίφρος Μιλη-
Lycia, and had a sanctuary and oracle at Patara in σιουργής, κλίνη Χιουργής, and τράπεζα Ρηνιοεργής.
Licia. (Pind. Pyth. i. 39 ; Propert. iii. 1. 38 ; Polemon explains the word as meaning made in
Virg. Aen. iv. 143, 346, 377. ) Ii must, however, Lycia, like the mpokódovs Avroepyéas mentioned
be observed, that Lycius is often used in the sense by Herodotus (vii. 76), and in this he is followed
of Lyceius, and in allusion to his being the slayer by Harpocration (s. v. ), and by most modern
of wolves. (Comp. Serv. ad Aen. iv. 377, who scholars. (See Valckenaer ad Herod. l. c. ) The
gives several other explanations of the name ; Paus. style of Lycius probably resembled that of his
ii. 9. $ 7, 19. $ 3; Philostr. Her. x. 4 ; Eustath. father.
[P. S. )
ad Hom. p. 354. )
LYCOA'TIS (Aukoatis), a surname of Artemis,
Lycius also occurs as the proper name of two who had a temple at Lycoa, in Arcadia. (Paus.
mythical beings, one a son of Lycaon (Apollod. iii. viii. 36. $ 5. )
8), and the other a son of Pandion. (Paus. i. 19. LYCOʻCTONUS. [LYCEIUS. ]
§ 4. )
[L. S. ] LYCO’LEON (Aukonéwv), an Athenian orator,
LY'CIUS (^úkios), of Eleutherne, in Boeotia, and a disciple of Isocrates, is mentioned only by
was a distinguished statuary, whom Pliny mentions Aristotle (Rhet. iii. 10), who quotes a fragment of
as only the disciple, while Pausanias and Polemon an oration of bis UTèp Xabpiou. As in that frag-
make him the son, of Mvron. He must, therefore, ment mention is made of the bronze statue which
have flourished about Ol. 92, B. C. 428. (Plin. was erected to Chabrias (Diod. xv. 33 ; Nep. Chab.
H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19; Ibid, § 17 ; Paus. i. 23. S1), it is evident that that oration must have been
7, v. 22. $ 3 ; Polemon, ap. Ath. xi. p. 486, d ; delivered after the year B. c. 377. [L. S. )
Suid. s. v. ; respecting the true reading of the second LYCOME'DES (Auroundns). 1. A king of
passage of Pliny, see Hegesias, p. 368, b. ) Pliny the Dolopians, in the island of Scyros, near Eu-
mentions as his works a group of the Argonauts, boea, father of Deidameia, and grand father of Pyr-
and a boy blowing up an expiring flame : “a work rhus or Neoptolemus. (Apollod. iii. 13. 8 8. ) Once
worthy of his teacher. " Ai the erd of the same when Theseus came to him, Lycomedes, dreading
section Pliny adds, “Lycius (for so the best the influence of the stranger upon his own subiects,
MSS. rend, not Lycus) et ipse puerum suffitorem,” | thrust him down a rock. Some related that the
which we take to be obviously an after insertion, cause of this violence was, that Lycomedes would
made with Pliny's frequent carelessness, and de- not give up the estates which Theseus had in
scribing nothing else than the “puerum sufflantem" | Scyros, or the circumstance that Lycomedes wanted
mentioned by him above. Pausanias states that to gain the favour of Menestheus. (Plut. Thes.
35 ;
he saw in the Acropolis at Athens a bronze statue Paus. i. 17, in fin. ; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 1324 ;
by Lycius, of a boy holding a sprinkling vessel Soph. Phil. 243; Apollod. iii. 13. )
(tepippavtýpov). Pausanias (v. 22. $ 2) also men- 2. A son of Creon, one of the Greek warriors at
tions a group by Lycius, which is exceedingly in. Troy (Hom. Il. ix. 8+); he was represented as a
teresting as a specimen of the arrangement of the wounded man by Polygnotus in the Lesche at
figures in a great work of statuary of the best Delphi. (Paus. 1. 25. § 2. )
8
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846
LYCOMEDES.
LYCON.
3. A son of A pollo and Parthenope (Paus. vii. involving a breach of their connection with Sparta;
4. & 2. )
[L. S. ) but they afterwards consented to it on the ground
LYCOME'DES (Nukouhons). 1. An Athenian, that it was as much for the advantage of Lacedae
bon of Aeschreas, was the first Greek who captured mon as of Athens that Arcadia should be indepen-
a Persian ship at Artemisium, in B. C. 480, on dent of Thebes. Lycomedes, on his return by sea
which occasion he gained the prize of valour. (Her. from Athens, desired to be put on shore at a ceruin
viii. 11. ) He was perhaps the same as the father portion of the Peloponnesian const, where there
of the Athenian general Archestratus, mentioned happened to be collected a number of Arcadian
by Thucydides (i. 57). Lycomedes was also the exiles; and by these he was murdered. (Xen. Ilell.
name of the father of Cleomedes, one of the Athe- vii. 4. $S 2, 3. ) [CALLISTRATU'S, No. 3. )
nian commanders against Melos in B. C. 416. (Thuc. 3. A Rhodian, was appointed to command the
v. 84. )
Persian garrison placed in Mytilene by Autophra-
2. A Mantinean, according to Xenophon and dates and the younger Pharnabazus, in B. c. 333.
Pausanias, wealthy, high-born, and ambitious. In the ensuing year the Persian garrisons were
Diodorus calls him in one passage a Tegean ; but dislodged from the islands in the Aegnean by
there can be no question (though Wesseling would Alexander's officer, Hegelochus. (Arr. Anal. ii.
raise one) of the identity of this Lycomedes with 1, iii. 2 ; Curt. iv. 5. )
the Arcadian general whom he elsewhere speaks 4. Priest of the goddess Enyo or Bellona at
of as a Mantinean. (Xen. IIell. vii. 1. $ 23; Paus. Coman, and sovereign, therefore, of the surround-
viii. 27 ; Diod. xv. 59, 62 ; Wess. ad Diod. xv. ing country. He was an adherent of Antony, and
59 ; Schneider, au I'en. llell. vi. 5. $ 3. ) We first was deposed by Augustus after the battle of Ac-
hear of him as one of the chief founders of Mega- tium, B. C. 30. (Strab. xii. p. 558 ; Dion Cass. li.
lopolis in B. c. 370, and Diodorus (xv. 59. ) tells us 2 ; comp. App. Mithr. 114. )
[E. E. ]
that he was the author of the plan, though the LYCON (Aúkww), the name of two mythical
words of Pausanias (viii. 27, ix. 14. ) would seem personages, one, a son of Hippocoon, was killed by
to ascribe the origination of it to Epaminondas. Heracles (Apollod. iii. 10. $ 5; Hippocoon), and
(Comp. Arist. Pol. ii. 2, ed. Bekk. ; Xen. Hell. vi. the other a Trojan. (Hom. Il. xvi. 335. ) (L. S. ]
5. § 6, &c. ) In B. c. 369 Lycomedes was general LYCON (Auswv), historical. 1. An orator
of the Arcadians and defeated, near Orchomenus, and demagogue at Athens, was one of the three
the forces of the Lacedaemonians under Polytropus. accusers of Socrates and prepared the case against
(Xen. Hell. vi. 5. § 14 ; Diod. xv. 62. ) In the him. According to Stallbaum, Lycon was one of
following year we find symptoms of a rising jea- the ten regular advocates (ouvyopoi) employed
lousy towards Thebes on the part of the Arcadians, by the state to conduct public prosecutions ;
owing in great measure to the suggestions and ex- but there seems to be no authority for this state-
hortations of Lycomedes, who reminded his coun- ment. When the Athenians repented of their
trymen of their ancient descent as the children of condemnation of Socrates, they put Melitus to
the soil, of their numbers, their high military qua- death and banished Anytus and Lycon. (Plat.
lifications, and of the fact that their support was Apol. p. 23, e ; Stallb. ad loc. ; Ding. Laërt. ii.
quite as important to Thebes as it had been to 38, 39, 43 ; Menag. ad loc. ) The Lycon, who is
Lacedaemon ; and it is possible that the spirit thus mentioned by Aristophanes (Vesp. 1301) as a
roused and fostered in Arcadia may have shortened drunken brawler, has been identified by some with
the stay of Epaminondas in the Peloponnesus on the accuser of Socrates (Stallb. l. c. ; Kühner, and
this his second invasion of it. The vigour exhibited | Xen. Mem. i. 1. $ 1); and, if we may believe the
in consequence by the Arcadians under Lycomedes scholiast on Plato (Apol. l. c. ), the latter was also
and the successes they met with are mentioned by the same person as the husband of the notoriously
Xenophon and Diodorus, the latter of whom how- profligate Rhodia, satirized by Eupolis. From the
ever places these events a year too soon. Thus it same authority we learn that he was an Ionian by
was in B. c. 369, according to him, that Lycomedes descent, belonged to the demus of Thoricus, and
marched against Pellene in Laconia, and, having was noted for his poverty by Cratinus in the Autim,
taken it, made slaves of the inhabitants and ravaged |(Arist. Lysistr. 270 ; Schol. ad loc. ; Schn. Praef.
the country. (Xen. Hell. vii
. 1. $$ 23, &c. ; Diod. ad Xen. Anab. p. xxxii ; Meineke, Fragm. Com.
xv. 67 ; Wess. ad loc. ) The same spirit of inde Graec. vol. i. p. 117, ii.
