drinker, and who is there called one of the tyrants The following pedigree represents the relation-
of the Peiraeeus (ev Tois Tespais Tupavveúovou); ships above referred to :-
but this expression is understood by Thirlwall,
with more probability, to refer to the thirty tyrants
of B.
of the Peiraeeus (ev Tois Tespais Tupavveúovou); ships above referred to :-
but this expression is understood by Thirlwall,
with more probability, to refer to the thirty tyrants
of B.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
91.
) Fabricius
rian tribes. He is first mentioned as bringing a says he was the master of Heracleides of Tarentum,
considerable force to the assistance of Cleitus, ano and Apollonius, but for this statement the writer
ther Illyrian prince, against Alexander the Great, Las not been able to find any authority. (Bill.
B. C. 335. They were, however, both defeated, Graec. vol. xiii. p. 171, ed. Vet. ) (W. A. G. )
and Cleitus forced to take refuge within the Tau- GLAU'CIAS (Tlavklas), a statuary of Aegina,
lantian territories, whither Alexander did not who made the bronze chariot and statue of Gelon,
pursue him, his attention being called elsewhere by the son of Deinomenes, afterwards tyrant of Syra-
the news of the revolt of Thebes. (Arrian, i. 5, cuse, in commemoration of his victory in the cha-
6. ) We next hear of Glaucias, nearly 20 years riot race at Olympia, OL. 73, B. C. 488. The fol-
later, as affording an asylum to the infant Pyrrhus, lowing bronze statues at Olympia were also by
when his father Acacides was driven out of Epeirus. Glaucias : Philon, whose victory was recorded in
(Plut. Pyrrh. 3; Justin. xvii. 3. ) By this measure the following epigram by Simonides, the son of
he gave offence to Cassander, who sought to gain Leoprepes,
possession of Epeirus for himself, and who in vain Πατρίς μέν Κορκύρα, Φίλων δ' όνομ', είμι δε
offered Glaucias 200 talents to give up the child. Γλαύκου
Not long after, the Macedonian king invaded his Yίος, και νίκη πυξ δύ' ολυμπιάδας:
territories, and defeated him in battle ; but though Glaucus of Carystus, the boxer, practising strokes
Glaucias bound himself by the treaty which ensued (okiauaxwv); and Theagenes of Thasos, who con-
to refrain from hostilities against the al'ies of Cas- quered Euthymus in boxing in Ol. 75, B. C. 480
sander, he still retained Pyrrhus at his court, and, (Paus. vi. 6. & 2). Glaucias therefore flourished
in B. c. 307, took the opportunity, after the death B. C. 488—480 (Paus. vi. 9. § 3, 10. § 1, 1).
of Alcetas, king of Epeirus, to invade that country & 3).
(P. S. )
with an army, and establish the young prince, GLAU'CIDES (riaukions), one of the chief
then 12 years old, upon the throne. (Diod. xix. men of Abydus when it was besieged by Philip V.
67 ; Plut. Pyrrh. 3; Justin. xvii. 3 ; Paus. i. 11. of Macedon, in B. C. 200, and apparently one of
$ 5. ) The territories of Glaucias bordered upon the fifty elders whom the people had bound by an
those of the Greek cities, Apollonia and Epi- oath to slay the women and children and to burn
damnus ; and this proximity involved him in the treasures of the city, as soon as the enemy
frequent hostilities with those states ; in 312 he should have got possession of the inner wall.
even made himself master of Epidamnus, by the Glaucides, however, with some others, shrunk from
assistance of the Corcyraeans. (Diod. xix. 70, 78. ) what they had undertaken, and sent the priests
The date of his death is not mentioned ; but it with suppliant wreaths to make a surrender of the
appears that he was still reigning in B. C. 302, town to Philip. (Polyb. xvi. 2934 ; Liv. xxxi.
when Pyrrhus repaired to his court, to be present 17. )
(E. E. )
at the marriage of one of his sons. (Plut. Pyrrh. 4. ) GLAUCIDES, a Greek statuary, one of those
2. An officer of cavalry in the service of Alex who made “athletas, et armatos, et venatores,
ander at the battle of Gaugamela (Arrian, iii. sacrificantesque ” (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 8. 8. 19.
11. )
§ 34).
[P. S. ]
3. (Perhaps the same with the preceding). A GLAUÄCION, a painter of Corinth, and the
follower of Cassander, whom he entrusted with the teacher of Athenion (ATHENION, No. 1]. (Plin.
charge of Roxana and her son Alexander when he H. N. xxxv, 11. s. 40. § 29. ) (P. S. )
confined them as prisoners in the citadel of Am- GLAUCIPPUS (aúkitToS), a son of the
phipolis. After the peace of B. c. 311, Cassander | Athenian orator llyperides, is said by Plutarch
VOL. II.
T
## p. 274 (#290) ############################################
274
GLAUCON.
GLAUCUS.
3
Erecestides.
Bolon.
Critias.
Glaucon.
Callaeschrus.
Ariston = Perictione = lyrilampes.
Charmides.
(Vit. x. Orat. p. 848), who calls him a rhetor, to him one of the speakers in the republic. lle is
have written orations, one of which, viz. against also introduced as a speaker in Xenophon's Aleman
Phocion, is mentioned by Plutarch himself. (Phoc. rabilia (iii. 6). Suidas (s. v. Arátwv) calls him
4 ; comp. Athen. xiii. p. 590 ; Suid. s. v. rraúko- | Glaucus. (See also Diog. Laërt. ii. 4 ; Plut
hos ; Phot. Bil. Cod. 266. p. 495, ed. Bekker. ) de Frat. Amor. p. 484, e. ) In Plato's Parmenides
Whether he is the same as the rhetorician Glau. also, Glaucon is one of the speakers ; but a doubt
cippus, of whom a fragment is preserved by Seneca has been raised whether this is not a different
(Controv. iv. 25), or as the Glaucippus who wrote person, on the ground of an anachronism which
on the Sacra of the Athenians (Macrob. Sat. i. the passage contains. Considering, however, the
13), is uncertain.
(L. S. ) frequency of anachronisms in Plato, it seems most
GLAUCON (raatkwv), an Athenian mentioned probable that this Glaucon is his brother. _(Comp.
by Teles (ap. Stob. Floril. vol. ii. p. 82. ed Gaisf. ), Heindorf. ad Plat. Parmen. p. 126. ) There is,
who appears to have borne a distinguished part in perhaps, more doubt about the Glaucon who is one
the last struggle of the Athenians against Antigonus of the speakers in the Symposium (p. 172, c. ).
Gonatas, known by the name of the Chremonidean It is universally believed that this Glaucon is the
war, B. C. 263. After its termination he fled, Athenian philosopher mentioned by Diogenes La
together with Chremonides, to the court of Ptolemy ërtius, as the author of a book containing nine
Philadelphus, where he was received with great dialogues, entitled, Þeidúxos, Evpitions, 'Auúrtıyos,
honour, and rose to a high place in the king's con- Ευθίας, Λυσιτείδης, Αριστοφάνης, Κέφαλος, Αναξί-
fidence. Droysen (Ilellenisin. vol. ii. p. 206) suponuos, Mevébevos. Thirty-two other dialogues,
poses him to be the same Glaucon that is mentioned which were ascribed to him, are designated as spu-
by Pythermus (ap. Athen. ii
. p. 44) as a water- rious by Diogenes (ii. 124).
drinker, and who is there called one of the tyrants The following pedigree represents the relation-
of the Peiraeeus (ev Tois Tespais Tupavveúovou); ships above referred to :-
but this expression is understood by Thirlwall,
with more probability, to refer to the thirty tyrants
of B. C. 404. (Thirlwall's Greece, vol. viii. p. 92
Dropides.
not. )
[E. H. B. ]
GLAUCON (riaúkw), an Athenian, who,
together with his brother Glaucus, and Theo-
pompus, father of Macartatus, endeavoured by a
forged will to obtain possession of some property,
to the exclusion of Phylomache, who was next of
kin to the deceased. The forgery was detected,
but the attempt was renewed by them successfully Placo Glaucon. Adeimantus.
in another trial (Sadıxaola ; see Dict. of Ant. s. v. ),
[P. S. ]
which placed Theopompus in possession of the GLAUCO'NOME (TXavkuróun), one of the
property (Dem. C. Macart. pp. 1051, 1052). The daughters of Nereus. (Hes. Theog. 256 ; Apollod.
speech of Demosthenes προς Μακάρτατον Was i. 2. $ 7.
(LS. )
written to recover it for Eubulides, the son of GLAUCUS (r^aúkos). 1. A grandson of
Phylomache.
[E. E. ] Aeolus, son of Sisyphus and Merope, and father of
GLAUCON (rdaúkwv), grammarians. 1. An Bellerophontes. (Hom. Il. vi. 154; Apollod. i. 9.
eminent rhapsodist, or expositor of Homer, men $ 3; Paus. ii. 4. § 2. ) He lived at Potniae,
tioned by Plato, in conjunction with Metrodorus despised the power of Aphrodite, and did not
of Lampsacus, and Stesimbrotus of Thasos. (Ion. allow his mares to breed, that they might be the
p. 530, d. ; see the notes of Müller and Nitzsch. ) stronger for the horse race. According to others,
2. A writer on Homer, quoted by Aristotle. (Poët. he fed them with human flesh, for the purpose of
25: this is one of the passages which Ritter con- making them spirited and warlike. This excited
siders as the additions of a later writer: he believes the anger of Aphrodite or the gods in general, who
that Glaucon lived after Aristotle. ) 3. Of Tarsus, punished him in this way:-when Acastus cele
a! so a writer on Homer, and apparently the head brated the funeral games of his father, Pelias, at
of a grammatical school. He wrote a work en- | Lolcus, Glaucus took part in them with a chariot
titled g moral, (Schol. ad llom. Il. i. l; Athen. and four horses ; but the animals were frightened
xi. p. 480, f. ) 4. Of Teos, a writer on recitation and upset the chariot. (Paus. iii. 18. Ø 9, v. 17.
(Aristot. Rhet. iii. 1. ) Whether of the above $ 4; Apollod. i. 9. § 28 ; Nonn. Dionys. xi. 143. )
writers, the first and second are the same as either According to others, they tore Glaucus to pieces,
the third or the fourth, or different from either, having drunk from the water of a sacred well in
it is impossible to determine. The first is supposed Boeotia, in consequence of which they were seized
by some to have been an Athenian, because Plato with madness ; others, again, describe this mad-
does not mention his country. (Comp. Villoisin, ness as the consequence of their having eaten a
Proleg. ad Hom. p. 25. )
[P. S. ] herb called hippomanes. (Hygin. Fal. 250, 273;
GLAUCON (FAaúkwv), relatives of Plato. 1. Schol. ad Eurip. Or. 318, Phoen. 1159 ; Strab.
The son of Critias, son of Dropides, was also the p. 409 ; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 269 ; Etym. Magn.
brother of Callaeschrus, and the father of Char- p. 685. 42; Paus. ix. 8. Sl; Aelian, H. A. XV.
mides and of Plato's mother, Perictione ; he was, 25; Virg. Georg. iii. 267. ) It was believed on
consequently, uncle to Critias (the tyrant) on the the Corinthian isthmus that it was haunted by the
father's side, and to Plato on the mother's side. shade of Glaucus, who frightened the horses during
(Plat. passim ; Xen. Mem. ii. 7. 8 1 ; Heindorf, the race, and was therefore called Tapáficos.
ad Plat. Charm. p. 154. )
(Paus, vi. 20. S 9. ) Glaucus of Potniae (Γλαύκος
2. The son of Ariston, and brother of Plato, Motvieús) was the title of one of Aeschylus’ lost
who, besides mentioning him elsewhere, makes tragedies. (Welcker, Die Aeschyl
. Trilog. p. 561,
Antiphon
## p. 275 (#291) ############################################
GLAUCUS.
275
GLAUCUS.
Nachtrag, p. 175, Die Griech. Tragoed. vol. i. pp. 30, the subject of separate dramatic compositions.
52. )
(Welcker, Die Griech. Tragoed. vol. i. pp. 62, 416,
2. A son of Hippolochus, and grandson of Bel- vol. ii. p. 767, &c. )
lerophontes. He was a Lycian prince, and led his 7. Of Anthedon in Boeotia, & fisherman, who
hosts from Xanthus to the assistance of Priam in had the good luck to eat a part of the divine herb
the war with the Greeks. (Hom. Il. ii. 875, vi. which Cronos had sown, and which made Glaucus
206 ; Herod. i 147. ) He was one of the most immortal. (Athen. vii. c. 48 ; Claud. de Nupt. Mar.
eminent heroes on the side of the Trojans, and z. 158. ) His parentage is different in the different
connected with Diomedes by ties of hospitality, traditions, which are enumerated by Athenaeus ;
which shows a very early intercourse between the some called his father Copeus, others Polybus,
Greeks and Lycians. (Hom. I. vii. 13, xii. 387, the husband of Euboea, and others again Anthe-
xiv. 426, xvi. 492, &c. , xvii. 140, &c. ) He was don or Poseidon. He was further said to have
slain by Ajax, but his body was carried back to been a clever diver, to have built the ship Argo,
Lycia. (Quint. Smyrn. Paralip.
rian tribes. He is first mentioned as bringing a says he was the master of Heracleides of Tarentum,
considerable force to the assistance of Cleitus, ano and Apollonius, but for this statement the writer
ther Illyrian prince, against Alexander the Great, Las not been able to find any authority. (Bill.
B. C. 335. They were, however, both defeated, Graec. vol. xiii. p. 171, ed. Vet. ) (W. A. G. )
and Cleitus forced to take refuge within the Tau- GLAU'CIAS (Tlavklas), a statuary of Aegina,
lantian territories, whither Alexander did not who made the bronze chariot and statue of Gelon,
pursue him, his attention being called elsewhere by the son of Deinomenes, afterwards tyrant of Syra-
the news of the revolt of Thebes. (Arrian, i. 5, cuse, in commemoration of his victory in the cha-
6. ) We next hear of Glaucias, nearly 20 years riot race at Olympia, OL. 73, B. C. 488. The fol-
later, as affording an asylum to the infant Pyrrhus, lowing bronze statues at Olympia were also by
when his father Acacides was driven out of Epeirus. Glaucias : Philon, whose victory was recorded in
(Plut. Pyrrh. 3; Justin. xvii. 3. ) By this measure the following epigram by Simonides, the son of
he gave offence to Cassander, who sought to gain Leoprepes,
possession of Epeirus for himself, and who in vain Πατρίς μέν Κορκύρα, Φίλων δ' όνομ', είμι δε
offered Glaucias 200 talents to give up the child. Γλαύκου
Not long after, the Macedonian king invaded his Yίος, και νίκη πυξ δύ' ολυμπιάδας:
territories, and defeated him in battle ; but though Glaucus of Carystus, the boxer, practising strokes
Glaucias bound himself by the treaty which ensued (okiauaxwv); and Theagenes of Thasos, who con-
to refrain from hostilities against the al'ies of Cas- quered Euthymus in boxing in Ol. 75, B. C. 480
sander, he still retained Pyrrhus at his court, and, (Paus. vi. 6. & 2). Glaucias therefore flourished
in B. c. 307, took the opportunity, after the death B. C. 488—480 (Paus. vi. 9. § 3, 10. § 1, 1).
of Alcetas, king of Epeirus, to invade that country & 3).
(P. S. )
with an army, and establish the young prince, GLAU'CIDES (riaukions), one of the chief
then 12 years old, upon the throne. (Diod. xix. men of Abydus when it was besieged by Philip V.
67 ; Plut. Pyrrh. 3; Justin. xvii. 3 ; Paus. i. 11. of Macedon, in B. C. 200, and apparently one of
$ 5. ) The territories of Glaucias bordered upon the fifty elders whom the people had bound by an
those of the Greek cities, Apollonia and Epi- oath to slay the women and children and to burn
damnus ; and this proximity involved him in the treasures of the city, as soon as the enemy
frequent hostilities with those states ; in 312 he should have got possession of the inner wall.
even made himself master of Epidamnus, by the Glaucides, however, with some others, shrunk from
assistance of the Corcyraeans. (Diod. xix. 70, 78. ) what they had undertaken, and sent the priests
The date of his death is not mentioned ; but it with suppliant wreaths to make a surrender of the
appears that he was still reigning in B. C. 302, town to Philip. (Polyb. xvi. 2934 ; Liv. xxxi.
when Pyrrhus repaired to his court, to be present 17. )
(E. E. )
at the marriage of one of his sons. (Plut. Pyrrh. 4. ) GLAUCIDES, a Greek statuary, one of those
2. An officer of cavalry in the service of Alex who made “athletas, et armatos, et venatores,
ander at the battle of Gaugamela (Arrian, iii. sacrificantesque ” (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 8. 8. 19.
11. )
§ 34).
[P. S. ]
3. (Perhaps the same with the preceding). A GLAUÄCION, a painter of Corinth, and the
follower of Cassander, whom he entrusted with the teacher of Athenion (ATHENION, No. 1]. (Plin.
charge of Roxana and her son Alexander when he H. N. xxxv, 11. s. 40. § 29. ) (P. S. )
confined them as prisoners in the citadel of Am- GLAUCIPPUS (aúkitToS), a son of the
phipolis. After the peace of B. c. 311, Cassander | Athenian orator llyperides, is said by Plutarch
VOL. II.
T
## p. 274 (#290) ############################################
274
GLAUCON.
GLAUCUS.
3
Erecestides.
Bolon.
Critias.
Glaucon.
Callaeschrus.
Ariston = Perictione = lyrilampes.
Charmides.
(Vit. x. Orat. p. 848), who calls him a rhetor, to him one of the speakers in the republic. lle is
have written orations, one of which, viz. against also introduced as a speaker in Xenophon's Aleman
Phocion, is mentioned by Plutarch himself. (Phoc. rabilia (iii. 6). Suidas (s. v. Arátwv) calls him
4 ; comp. Athen. xiii. p. 590 ; Suid. s. v. rraúko- | Glaucus. (See also Diog. Laërt. ii. 4 ; Plut
hos ; Phot. Bil. Cod. 266. p. 495, ed. Bekker. ) de Frat. Amor. p. 484, e. ) In Plato's Parmenides
Whether he is the same as the rhetorician Glau. also, Glaucon is one of the speakers ; but a doubt
cippus, of whom a fragment is preserved by Seneca has been raised whether this is not a different
(Controv. iv. 25), or as the Glaucippus who wrote person, on the ground of an anachronism which
on the Sacra of the Athenians (Macrob. Sat. i. the passage contains. Considering, however, the
13), is uncertain.
(L. S. ) frequency of anachronisms in Plato, it seems most
GLAUCON (raatkwv), an Athenian mentioned probable that this Glaucon is his brother. _(Comp.
by Teles (ap. Stob. Floril. vol. ii. p. 82. ed Gaisf. ), Heindorf. ad Plat. Parmen. p. 126. ) There is,
who appears to have borne a distinguished part in perhaps, more doubt about the Glaucon who is one
the last struggle of the Athenians against Antigonus of the speakers in the Symposium (p. 172, c. ).
Gonatas, known by the name of the Chremonidean It is universally believed that this Glaucon is the
war, B. C. 263. After its termination he fled, Athenian philosopher mentioned by Diogenes La
together with Chremonides, to the court of Ptolemy ërtius, as the author of a book containing nine
Philadelphus, where he was received with great dialogues, entitled, Þeidúxos, Evpitions, 'Auúrtıyos,
honour, and rose to a high place in the king's con- Ευθίας, Λυσιτείδης, Αριστοφάνης, Κέφαλος, Αναξί-
fidence. Droysen (Ilellenisin. vol. ii. p. 206) suponuos, Mevébevos. Thirty-two other dialogues,
poses him to be the same Glaucon that is mentioned which were ascribed to him, are designated as spu-
by Pythermus (ap. Athen. ii
. p. 44) as a water- rious by Diogenes (ii. 124).
drinker, and who is there called one of the tyrants The following pedigree represents the relation-
of the Peiraeeus (ev Tois Tespais Tupavveúovou); ships above referred to :-
but this expression is understood by Thirlwall,
with more probability, to refer to the thirty tyrants
of B. C. 404. (Thirlwall's Greece, vol. viii. p. 92
Dropides.
not. )
[E. H. B. ]
GLAUCON (riaúkw), an Athenian, who,
together with his brother Glaucus, and Theo-
pompus, father of Macartatus, endeavoured by a
forged will to obtain possession of some property,
to the exclusion of Phylomache, who was next of
kin to the deceased. The forgery was detected,
but the attempt was renewed by them successfully Placo Glaucon. Adeimantus.
in another trial (Sadıxaola ; see Dict. of Ant. s. v. ),
[P. S. ]
which placed Theopompus in possession of the GLAUCO'NOME (TXavkuróun), one of the
property (Dem. C. Macart. pp. 1051, 1052). The daughters of Nereus. (Hes. Theog. 256 ; Apollod.
speech of Demosthenes προς Μακάρτατον Was i. 2. $ 7.
(LS. )
written to recover it for Eubulides, the son of GLAUCUS (r^aúkos). 1. A grandson of
Phylomache.
[E. E. ] Aeolus, son of Sisyphus and Merope, and father of
GLAUCON (rdaúkwv), grammarians. 1. An Bellerophontes. (Hom. Il. vi. 154; Apollod. i. 9.
eminent rhapsodist, or expositor of Homer, men $ 3; Paus. ii. 4. § 2. ) He lived at Potniae,
tioned by Plato, in conjunction with Metrodorus despised the power of Aphrodite, and did not
of Lampsacus, and Stesimbrotus of Thasos. (Ion. allow his mares to breed, that they might be the
p. 530, d. ; see the notes of Müller and Nitzsch. ) stronger for the horse race. According to others,
2. A writer on Homer, quoted by Aristotle. (Poët. he fed them with human flesh, for the purpose of
25: this is one of the passages which Ritter con- making them spirited and warlike. This excited
siders as the additions of a later writer: he believes the anger of Aphrodite or the gods in general, who
that Glaucon lived after Aristotle. ) 3. Of Tarsus, punished him in this way:-when Acastus cele
a! so a writer on Homer, and apparently the head brated the funeral games of his father, Pelias, at
of a grammatical school. He wrote a work en- | Lolcus, Glaucus took part in them with a chariot
titled g moral, (Schol. ad llom. Il. i. l; Athen. and four horses ; but the animals were frightened
xi. p. 480, f. ) 4. Of Teos, a writer on recitation and upset the chariot. (Paus. iii. 18. Ø 9, v. 17.
(Aristot. Rhet. iii. 1. ) Whether of the above $ 4; Apollod. i. 9. § 28 ; Nonn. Dionys. xi. 143. )
writers, the first and second are the same as either According to others, they tore Glaucus to pieces,
the third or the fourth, or different from either, having drunk from the water of a sacred well in
it is impossible to determine. The first is supposed Boeotia, in consequence of which they were seized
by some to have been an Athenian, because Plato with madness ; others, again, describe this mad-
does not mention his country. (Comp. Villoisin, ness as the consequence of their having eaten a
Proleg. ad Hom. p. 25. )
[P. S. ] herb called hippomanes. (Hygin. Fal. 250, 273;
GLAUCON (FAaúkwv), relatives of Plato. 1. Schol. ad Eurip. Or. 318, Phoen. 1159 ; Strab.
The son of Critias, son of Dropides, was also the p. 409 ; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 269 ; Etym. Magn.
brother of Callaeschrus, and the father of Char- p. 685. 42; Paus. ix. 8. Sl; Aelian, H. A. XV.
mides and of Plato's mother, Perictione ; he was, 25; Virg. Georg. iii. 267. ) It was believed on
consequently, uncle to Critias (the tyrant) on the the Corinthian isthmus that it was haunted by the
father's side, and to Plato on the mother's side. shade of Glaucus, who frightened the horses during
(Plat. passim ; Xen. Mem. ii. 7. 8 1 ; Heindorf, the race, and was therefore called Tapáficos.
ad Plat. Charm. p. 154. )
(Paus, vi. 20. S 9. ) Glaucus of Potniae (Γλαύκος
2. The son of Ariston, and brother of Plato, Motvieús) was the title of one of Aeschylus’ lost
who, besides mentioning him elsewhere, makes tragedies. (Welcker, Die Aeschyl
. Trilog. p. 561,
Antiphon
## p. 275 (#291) ############################################
GLAUCUS.
275
GLAUCUS.
Nachtrag, p. 175, Die Griech. Tragoed. vol. i. pp. 30, the subject of separate dramatic compositions.
52. )
(Welcker, Die Griech. Tragoed. vol. i. pp. 62, 416,
2. A son of Hippolochus, and grandson of Bel- vol. ii. p. 767, &c. )
lerophontes. He was a Lycian prince, and led his 7. Of Anthedon in Boeotia, & fisherman, who
hosts from Xanthus to the assistance of Priam in had the good luck to eat a part of the divine herb
the war with the Greeks. (Hom. Il. ii. 875, vi. which Cronos had sown, and which made Glaucus
206 ; Herod. i 147. ) He was one of the most immortal. (Athen. vii. c. 48 ; Claud. de Nupt. Mar.
eminent heroes on the side of the Trojans, and z. 158. ) His parentage is different in the different
connected with Diomedes by ties of hospitality, traditions, which are enumerated by Athenaeus ;
which shows a very early intercourse between the some called his father Copeus, others Polybus,
Greeks and Lycians. (Hom. I. vii. 13, xii. 387, the husband of Euboea, and others again Anthe-
xiv. 426, xvi. 492, &c. , xvii. 140, &c. ) He was don or Poseidon. He was further said to have
slain by Ajax, but his body was carried back to been a clever diver, to have built the ship Argo,
Lycia. (Quint. Smyrn. Paralip.
