32), speak-
that Lamprocles practised a severe style both of ing of Agrippa Menenius Lanatus (see below, No.
that Lamprocles practised a severe style both of ing of Agrippa Menenius Lanatus (see below, No.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
some additions and alterations from a Venetian
The motion of Stilicho was nevertheless carried MS. But this list, though it is preceded by a
by the timid senate, and Lampadius was com-
letter in which the author calls himself a son of
pelled to take sanctuary in a church. Lampa- Plutarch, can scarcely be the production of so near
dius had a brother, Theodorus, who is likewise a relation and contemporary of Plutarch, for it con-
favourably spoken of. (Zosim. pp. 335, 336, cd. tains works which are acknowledged by all to have
Oxford, 1679. )
(W. P. ] been written many centuries later, perhaps not long
LAMPE'TÍA (Aauterin), a daughter of Helios before the time of Suidas. It is, however, not
by the nymph Neacra. After her birth she and impossible that the titles of these spurious works
her sister Phaetusa were carried to Sicily, in order may have been introduced by a later hand, and
there to watch over the herds of their father. Somne that the groundwork may really be the work of
call Lampetia a sister of Phaeton. (Hom. Od. xii. Lamprias, a son of Plutarch. (Comp. A. Schafer,
132, &c. , 374, &c. ; Propert. iii. 12, 29 ; Hygin. Comment. de Libro Vit. Decem Orator. p. 2, &c. )
Fab. 154 ; Ov. Mct. ii. 349. )
[L. S. ) Another person of the name of Lamprias, though
LAMPIDO, or LAMPITO. (LEOTYCHIDES. ] | it is perhaps only a fictitious person, occurs in Lu-
LAMPON (Aáutwv). 1. A native of Aegina, cian. Dialog. Meretr. 3. )
(L. S. ]
son of Pytheas (PYTHEAS), mentioned by Hero- LAMPRIDIUS AEʻLIUS, one of the six
dotus (ix. 78) as having urged Pausanias after the Scriptores Historiae Augustae” [CAPITOLINUS].
battle of Plataea to avenge the death of Leonidas His name is prefixed to the biographies of, 1. Com-
by insulting and mutilating the corpse of Mar- modus ; 2. Antoninus Diadumenus; 3. Elagabalus,
donius.
and 4. Alexander Severus ; of which the first and
2. An Athenian, a celebrated soothsayer and third are inscribed to Diocletian, the second to no
interpreter of oracles. Cratinus satirized him in one, the fourth to Constantine. In the Palatine
his comedy entitled Aparetlões (Meineke, Fragm. MS. all the lives from Hadrianus down to Alex-
Com. ii. 1. p. 42, 51). Aristophanes also alludes ander Severus inclusive are attributed to Aelius
to him (Av. 521, 988). Plutarch (Per. 6) has a Spartianus, and hence Salmasius has conjectured,
story of his foretelling the ascendancy of Pericles with great plausibility, that he is one and the same
over Thucydides and his party. In B. C. 444, with Lampridius, and that the name of the author
Lampon, in conjunction with Xenocritus, led the in full was Aelius Lampridius Spartianus, a sup-
colony which founded Thurii on the site of the position in some degree confirmed by the circumn-
ancient Sybaris. (Diod. xii. 10 ; Schol. ad Aris-stance that Vopiscus, in referring to the writers
toph. Nub. 331, Av. 521, Pax, 1083; Suidas, s. v. who had preceded him, makes special mention of
Jouplouávtels. ) The name Lampon is found amongst Trebellius Pollio, Julius Capitolinus, and Aelius
those who took the oaths to the treaty of peace Lampridius ; but says not a word of Spartianus.
made between the Athenians and Lacedaemonians Be that as it may, if we examine carefully the
in B. C. 421. (Thuc. v. 19, 24. ) Whether this lives of Commodus and Diadumenus, we
was the soothsayer of that name, or not, we have scarcely avoid the conclusion that they are from
no means of deciding.
[C. P. M. ] the same pen with those of M. Aurelius and Ma-
M. LAMPONIUS, a Lucanian, was one of the crinus, both of which are ascribed to Capitolinus.
principal captains of the Italians in the war of the Again, the dedication of the Elagabalus to Diocle-
allies with Rome, B. C. 90—88. He commanded tian is manifestly erroneous, for in two places (c. 2,
in his native province at the breaking out of the 34) Constantine is directly addressed, and in the
war, since he drove P. Licinius Crassus (CRASSUS, latter passage the author announces an intention,
Licinius, No. 14) with great loss into Grumen- which he repeats in Alexander Severus (c. 64), of
tum. (Front. Strat. ii. 4, 16. ) In the last war continuing his undertaking down to the time of
with Sulla, B. c. 83—2, when the Samnites and Constantine. We have in a former article (CAPI-
Lucanians had become the allies of the Marian TOLINUS) remarked that it is impossible, in the
party at Rome, Lamponius was the companion of absence of all trustworthy evidence, to assign the
Pontius of Telesia in his march upon the capital. pieces which form this collection with any certainty
After victory finally declared for Sulla at the Col- to their real owners. For the editions, translations,
line gate, Lamponius disappeared with the herd of &c. , of Lampridius, see CAPITOLINUS. [W. R. ]
fugitives. (Appian, B. C. i. 40, 41, 90, 93 ; Plut. LAʼMPROCLES (Naumpokans). 1. The eldest
Sull. 29 ; Flor. iii. 21 ; Eutrop. v. 8. ) 'ATÁVIOS son of Socrates. (Xen. Mem. ii. 2 ; Cobet. Prosop.
in Diodorus (xxxvii. Eclog. i. ) is a misreading for Xenoph. p. 57. )
Lamponius.
(W. B. D. ] 2. An Athenian dithyrambic poet and musician,
LAMPRIAS (Aaut pias), a name which occurs from whom Athenaeus quotes a few words (xi. p.
three times in the history of the family of Plutarch 491, c. ). Plutarch mentions an improvement
of Chaeroneia
which he made in the musical strain called Mixo-
1. The grandfather of Plutarch. (Anton. 28; lydian (De Music. 16, p. 1136, e, f. ). A scholiast
De Defect. Orac. 8, 38, 46, &c. ; Sympos. i. 5, v. 5, on Plato makes him the pupil of Agathocles, and
ix. 2. )
the teacher of Damon. (Schol. in Plat. Alcib. i.
2. A bruther of Plutarch, and a follower of the p. 387, Bekker. ) The ode to Pallas, which is re-
can
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716
LANASSA.
LAVATUS.
ferred to by Aristophanes (Nul. 967), was ascribed the war that terminated in his final overthrow,
to Lamprocles by Phrynichus, though Eratosthenes probably in 288 B. C. (Plut. Pyrrh. 9, 10; Diod.
and others ascribed it to Phrynichus himself, while Exc. lloesch. xxi. p. 490, xxii. p. 490 ; Justin.
some made Stesichorus its author. (Schol. in xxiii. 3. )
(E. H. B. )
Aristoph. l. c. ) The scholiast who makes this LANA'TUS, the name of a family of the Men-
Btntement calls Lamprocles the son or disciple of enia gens, which was of great distinction in the
Midon. Thus much is evident from all accounts, earliest ages of the republic. Livy (ii.
32), speak-
that Lamprocles practised a severe style both of ing of Agrippa Menenius Lanatus (see below, No.
poetry and music, and that he belongs to a good 1), says that he was sprung from the plebs ; but
period of those arts, probably the sixth, or, at the as this Agrippa had been consul, and this dignity
latest, the beginning of the fifth century B. C. (Fa- was not yet open to the plebeians, it is certain that
bric. Bill. Gruec. vol. ii. p. 127 ; Schmidt, Diatrib. he must have been a patrician ; and, consequently,
in Dithyramb. pp. 138–143 ; Schneidewin, Delect. if the statement of Livy is correct, the Lanati must
Poës. Graec. p. 462. )
[P. S. ] have been made patricians, probably during the
LAMPRUS (Aautpós), the husband of Gula- reign of one of the later Roman kings.
tein. (Galateia, No. 2. ]
(L. S. ] 1. AGRIPPA MENENIUS C. F. LANATUS, consul,
LAMPRUS (náutpos). 1. A teacher of music B. C. 503, with P. Postumius Tubertus, conquered
at Athens in the youth of Socrates, who is made the Sabines and obtained the honour of a triumph
by Plato to mention him with a sort of ironical on account of his victory. In the struggles between
praise, as second only to Connus. (Mener. p. 236; | the patricians and plebeians he is represented as a
comp. Ath. x. p. 506, f. ) We learn from other man of moderate views, who had the good fortune,
sources that he was very celebrated as a musician. rarely to be found in civil strifes, of being beloved
(Ath. ii. p. 44, d. ; Plut. de Mus. 31, p. 1142 ; and trusted by both parties. It was owing to his
Nepos, Epam. 2. ) He is said to have been the mediation that the first great rupture between the
teacher of Sophocles in music and dancing. (Ath. patricians and plebeians, when the latter seceded to
i. p. 20, f. ; Vit. Soph. ) This statement, and the the Sacred Mount, was brought to a happy and peace-
reference to his death by Phrynichus (ap. Ath. ii. ful termination in B. C. 493 ; and it was upon this
p. 44, d. ), fix his time to the former part of the occasion he is said to have related to the plebeians
fifth century B. C.
his well-known fable of the belly and its members.
2. Of Erythrae, a Peripatetic philosopher, who He died at the latter end of this year, and as he did
is mentioned by Suidas as the teacher of Aristox. not leave sufficient property for defraying the ex-
enus. (Suid. s. v. 'Apiotótevos. )
pences of any but a most ordinary funeral, he was
3. A grammarian mentioned in the Maga Mo buried at the public expence in a most splendid
ralia ascribed to Aristotle, ii. 7. (Fabric. Bill. manner : the plebeians had made voluntary con-
Graec. vol. ii. p. 128. )
[P. S. ] tributions for the purpose, which were given to the
LAMPTER (Majithp), i. e. the shining or children of Lanatus, after the senate had insisted
torch-bearer, a surname of Dionysus, under which that the expences of the funeral should be paid from
he was worshipped at Pellene in Achaia, where a the treasury. (Liv. ii. 16, 32, 33 ; Dionys. v.
festival called Aauttúpia was celebrated in his ho- | 44–47, vi. 49—89, 96 ; Zonar. vii. 13, 14. )
nour. (Paus. vii. 27. § 2. )
[L. S. ] 2. T. MENENIUS AGRIPPAE F. C. N. LANATUS,
LAMPUS (náutros). 1. One of the sons of son of the preceding, was consul in B. C. 477 with
Aegyptus. (Apollod. ii
. 1. $ 5. )
C. Horatius Pulvillus. It was during this year
2. A son of Laomedon, and father of Dolops, that the Fabii were cut off by the Etruscans at
was one of the Trojan elders. (Hom. I. iii. 147, Cremera, and T. Lanatus, who was encamped only
xv. 536, xx. 238. )
a short way off at the time, allowed them to be
3. The name of two horses, one belonging to destroyed in accordance with the wishes of the
Eos (Hom. Od. xxiii. 246 ; Fulgent. Myth. i. 11), ruling party in the senate. He paid, however,
the other to Hector. (Hom. I. viii. 185. ) [L. S. dearly for this act of treachery. The Etruscans
LAMUS (nápos), a son of Poseidon, was king fushed with victory defeated his army, and took
of the Laestrygones. (Hom. Od. x. 81 ; Eustath. possession of the Janiculus : and in the following
ad Hom. p. 1649 ; Horat. Carm. iii. 17,1; comp. year the tribunes brought him to trial for baving
LAMIUS. )
[L. S. ] neglected to assist the Fabii. As they did not
LAMY'NTHIUS (Aauúvēlos), of Miletus, a wish for the blood of the son of their great bene-
Greek poet of uncertain age, who celebrated in a factor, the punishment was to be only a fine of
lyric poem the praises of his mistress Lyde. (Athen. 2000 asses. Lanatus was condemned ; and he
xiii. p. 597, a. )
took his punishment so much to heart, that he
LANASSA (Aávagoa), daughter of Agathocles, shut himself up in his house and died of grief.
tyrant of Syracuse, was married to Pyrrhus, king (Liv. ii. 51, 52 ; Dionys. ix. 18—27 ; Diod. xi.
of Epeirus, to whom she brought as her dower the 53 ; Gell. xvii. 21. )
important island of Corcyra, which had been lately 3. T. MENENIUS AGRIPPAE P. AGRIPPAE N.
acquired by Agathocles. She became the mother, LANATUS, called by Livy Titus, and by Dionysius
of two sons, Alexander, the successor of Pyrrhus, Lucius, but by the other authorities Titus, was
and Helenus ; but, indignant at finding herself consul with P. Sestius Capitolinus Vaticanus, B. C.
neglected by her husband for his other two wives, 452, the year before the first decemvirate. (Liv.
who were both of barbarian origin (PYRRHUS), she ji. 32 ; Dionys. x. 54 ; Diod. xii. 22. ) It appears
withdrew to Corcyra, and sent to Demetrius, king from Festus (s. v. peculatus) that the consuls of
of Macedonia, to offer him at once her hand and this year had something to do with the lex Ateria
the possession of the island. Demetrius accepted | Tarpeia, which had been passed two years pre-
her proposal, and sailing to Corcyra, celebrated his viously, but the passage in Festus, as it stands at
nuptials with her, left a garrison in the island, and present, is not intelligible.
returned to Macedonia. This was shortly before 4.
The motion of Stilicho was nevertheless carried MS. But this list, though it is preceded by a
by the timid senate, and Lampadius was com-
letter in which the author calls himself a son of
pelled to take sanctuary in a church. Lampa- Plutarch, can scarcely be the production of so near
dius had a brother, Theodorus, who is likewise a relation and contemporary of Plutarch, for it con-
favourably spoken of. (Zosim. pp. 335, 336, cd. tains works which are acknowledged by all to have
Oxford, 1679. )
(W. P. ] been written many centuries later, perhaps not long
LAMPE'TÍA (Aauterin), a daughter of Helios before the time of Suidas. It is, however, not
by the nymph Neacra. After her birth she and impossible that the titles of these spurious works
her sister Phaetusa were carried to Sicily, in order may have been introduced by a later hand, and
there to watch over the herds of their father. Somne that the groundwork may really be the work of
call Lampetia a sister of Phaeton. (Hom. Od. xii. Lamprias, a son of Plutarch. (Comp. A. Schafer,
132, &c. , 374, &c. ; Propert. iii. 12, 29 ; Hygin. Comment. de Libro Vit. Decem Orator. p. 2, &c. )
Fab. 154 ; Ov. Mct. ii. 349. )
[L. S. ) Another person of the name of Lamprias, though
LAMPIDO, or LAMPITO. (LEOTYCHIDES. ] | it is perhaps only a fictitious person, occurs in Lu-
LAMPON (Aáutwv). 1. A native of Aegina, cian. Dialog. Meretr. 3. )
(L. S. ]
son of Pytheas (PYTHEAS), mentioned by Hero- LAMPRIDIUS AEʻLIUS, one of the six
dotus (ix. 78) as having urged Pausanias after the Scriptores Historiae Augustae” [CAPITOLINUS].
battle of Plataea to avenge the death of Leonidas His name is prefixed to the biographies of, 1. Com-
by insulting and mutilating the corpse of Mar- modus ; 2. Antoninus Diadumenus; 3. Elagabalus,
donius.
and 4. Alexander Severus ; of which the first and
2. An Athenian, a celebrated soothsayer and third are inscribed to Diocletian, the second to no
interpreter of oracles. Cratinus satirized him in one, the fourth to Constantine. In the Palatine
his comedy entitled Aparetlões (Meineke, Fragm. MS. all the lives from Hadrianus down to Alex-
Com. ii. 1. p. 42, 51). Aristophanes also alludes ander Severus inclusive are attributed to Aelius
to him (Av. 521, 988). Plutarch (Per. 6) has a Spartianus, and hence Salmasius has conjectured,
story of his foretelling the ascendancy of Pericles with great plausibility, that he is one and the same
over Thucydides and his party. In B. C. 444, with Lampridius, and that the name of the author
Lampon, in conjunction with Xenocritus, led the in full was Aelius Lampridius Spartianus, a sup-
colony which founded Thurii on the site of the position in some degree confirmed by the circumn-
ancient Sybaris. (Diod. xii. 10 ; Schol. ad Aris-stance that Vopiscus, in referring to the writers
toph. Nub. 331, Av. 521, Pax, 1083; Suidas, s. v. who had preceded him, makes special mention of
Jouplouávtels. ) The name Lampon is found amongst Trebellius Pollio, Julius Capitolinus, and Aelius
those who took the oaths to the treaty of peace Lampridius ; but says not a word of Spartianus.
made between the Athenians and Lacedaemonians Be that as it may, if we examine carefully the
in B. C. 421. (Thuc. v. 19, 24. ) Whether this lives of Commodus and Diadumenus, we
was the soothsayer of that name, or not, we have scarcely avoid the conclusion that they are from
no means of deciding.
[C. P. M. ] the same pen with those of M. Aurelius and Ma-
M. LAMPONIUS, a Lucanian, was one of the crinus, both of which are ascribed to Capitolinus.
principal captains of the Italians in the war of the Again, the dedication of the Elagabalus to Diocle-
allies with Rome, B. C. 90—88. He commanded tian is manifestly erroneous, for in two places (c. 2,
in his native province at the breaking out of the 34) Constantine is directly addressed, and in the
war, since he drove P. Licinius Crassus (CRASSUS, latter passage the author announces an intention,
Licinius, No. 14) with great loss into Grumen- which he repeats in Alexander Severus (c. 64), of
tum. (Front. Strat. ii. 4, 16. ) In the last war continuing his undertaking down to the time of
with Sulla, B. c. 83—2, when the Samnites and Constantine. We have in a former article (CAPI-
Lucanians had become the allies of the Marian TOLINUS) remarked that it is impossible, in the
party at Rome, Lamponius was the companion of absence of all trustworthy evidence, to assign the
Pontius of Telesia in his march upon the capital. pieces which form this collection with any certainty
After victory finally declared for Sulla at the Col- to their real owners. For the editions, translations,
line gate, Lamponius disappeared with the herd of &c. , of Lampridius, see CAPITOLINUS. [W. R. ]
fugitives. (Appian, B. C. i. 40, 41, 90, 93 ; Plut. LAʼMPROCLES (Naumpokans). 1. The eldest
Sull. 29 ; Flor. iii. 21 ; Eutrop. v. 8. ) 'ATÁVIOS son of Socrates. (Xen. Mem. ii. 2 ; Cobet. Prosop.
in Diodorus (xxxvii. Eclog. i. ) is a misreading for Xenoph. p. 57. )
Lamponius.
(W. B. D. ] 2. An Athenian dithyrambic poet and musician,
LAMPRIAS (Aaut pias), a name which occurs from whom Athenaeus quotes a few words (xi. p.
three times in the history of the family of Plutarch 491, c. ). Plutarch mentions an improvement
of Chaeroneia
which he made in the musical strain called Mixo-
1. The grandfather of Plutarch. (Anton. 28; lydian (De Music. 16, p. 1136, e, f. ). A scholiast
De Defect. Orac. 8, 38, 46, &c. ; Sympos. i. 5, v. 5, on Plato makes him the pupil of Agathocles, and
ix. 2. )
the teacher of Damon. (Schol. in Plat. Alcib. i.
2. A bruther of Plutarch, and a follower of the p. 387, Bekker. ) The ode to Pallas, which is re-
can
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716
LANASSA.
LAVATUS.
ferred to by Aristophanes (Nul. 967), was ascribed the war that terminated in his final overthrow,
to Lamprocles by Phrynichus, though Eratosthenes probably in 288 B. C. (Plut. Pyrrh. 9, 10; Diod.
and others ascribed it to Phrynichus himself, while Exc. lloesch. xxi. p. 490, xxii. p. 490 ; Justin.
some made Stesichorus its author. (Schol. in xxiii. 3. )
(E. H. B. )
Aristoph. l. c. ) The scholiast who makes this LANA'TUS, the name of a family of the Men-
Btntement calls Lamprocles the son or disciple of enia gens, which was of great distinction in the
Midon. Thus much is evident from all accounts, earliest ages of the republic. Livy (ii.
32), speak-
that Lamprocles practised a severe style both of ing of Agrippa Menenius Lanatus (see below, No.
poetry and music, and that he belongs to a good 1), says that he was sprung from the plebs ; but
period of those arts, probably the sixth, or, at the as this Agrippa had been consul, and this dignity
latest, the beginning of the fifth century B. C. (Fa- was not yet open to the plebeians, it is certain that
bric. Bill. Gruec. vol. ii. p. 127 ; Schmidt, Diatrib. he must have been a patrician ; and, consequently,
in Dithyramb. pp. 138–143 ; Schneidewin, Delect. if the statement of Livy is correct, the Lanati must
Poës. Graec. p. 462. )
[P. S. ] have been made patricians, probably during the
LAMPRUS (Aautpós), the husband of Gula- reign of one of the later Roman kings.
tein. (Galateia, No. 2. ]
(L. S. ] 1. AGRIPPA MENENIUS C. F. LANATUS, consul,
LAMPRUS (náutpos). 1. A teacher of music B. C. 503, with P. Postumius Tubertus, conquered
at Athens in the youth of Socrates, who is made the Sabines and obtained the honour of a triumph
by Plato to mention him with a sort of ironical on account of his victory. In the struggles between
praise, as second only to Connus. (Mener. p. 236; | the patricians and plebeians he is represented as a
comp. Ath. x. p. 506, f. ) We learn from other man of moderate views, who had the good fortune,
sources that he was very celebrated as a musician. rarely to be found in civil strifes, of being beloved
(Ath. ii. p. 44, d. ; Plut. de Mus. 31, p. 1142 ; and trusted by both parties. It was owing to his
Nepos, Epam. 2. ) He is said to have been the mediation that the first great rupture between the
teacher of Sophocles in music and dancing. (Ath. patricians and plebeians, when the latter seceded to
i. p. 20, f. ; Vit. Soph. ) This statement, and the the Sacred Mount, was brought to a happy and peace-
reference to his death by Phrynichus (ap. Ath. ii. ful termination in B. C. 493 ; and it was upon this
p. 44, d. ), fix his time to the former part of the occasion he is said to have related to the plebeians
fifth century B. C.
his well-known fable of the belly and its members.
2. Of Erythrae, a Peripatetic philosopher, who He died at the latter end of this year, and as he did
is mentioned by Suidas as the teacher of Aristox. not leave sufficient property for defraying the ex-
enus. (Suid. s. v. 'Apiotótevos. )
pences of any but a most ordinary funeral, he was
3. A grammarian mentioned in the Maga Mo buried at the public expence in a most splendid
ralia ascribed to Aristotle, ii. 7. (Fabric. Bill. manner : the plebeians had made voluntary con-
Graec. vol. ii. p. 128. )
[P. S. ] tributions for the purpose, which were given to the
LAMPTER (Majithp), i. e. the shining or children of Lanatus, after the senate had insisted
torch-bearer, a surname of Dionysus, under which that the expences of the funeral should be paid from
he was worshipped at Pellene in Achaia, where a the treasury. (Liv. ii. 16, 32, 33 ; Dionys. v.
festival called Aauttúpia was celebrated in his ho- | 44–47, vi. 49—89, 96 ; Zonar. vii. 13, 14. )
nour. (Paus. vii. 27. § 2. )
[L. S. ] 2. T. MENENIUS AGRIPPAE F. C. N. LANATUS,
LAMPUS (náutros). 1. One of the sons of son of the preceding, was consul in B. C. 477 with
Aegyptus. (Apollod. ii
. 1. $ 5. )
C. Horatius Pulvillus. It was during this year
2. A son of Laomedon, and father of Dolops, that the Fabii were cut off by the Etruscans at
was one of the Trojan elders. (Hom. I. iii. 147, Cremera, and T. Lanatus, who was encamped only
xv. 536, xx. 238. )
a short way off at the time, allowed them to be
3. The name of two horses, one belonging to destroyed in accordance with the wishes of the
Eos (Hom. Od. xxiii. 246 ; Fulgent. Myth. i. 11), ruling party in the senate. He paid, however,
the other to Hector. (Hom. I. viii. 185. ) [L. S. dearly for this act of treachery. The Etruscans
LAMUS (nápos), a son of Poseidon, was king fushed with victory defeated his army, and took
of the Laestrygones. (Hom. Od. x. 81 ; Eustath. possession of the Janiculus : and in the following
ad Hom. p. 1649 ; Horat. Carm. iii. 17,1; comp. year the tribunes brought him to trial for baving
LAMIUS. )
[L. S. ] neglected to assist the Fabii. As they did not
LAMY'NTHIUS (Aauúvēlos), of Miletus, a wish for the blood of the son of their great bene-
Greek poet of uncertain age, who celebrated in a factor, the punishment was to be only a fine of
lyric poem the praises of his mistress Lyde. (Athen. 2000 asses. Lanatus was condemned ; and he
xiii. p. 597, a. )
took his punishment so much to heart, that he
LANASSA (Aávagoa), daughter of Agathocles, shut himself up in his house and died of grief.
tyrant of Syracuse, was married to Pyrrhus, king (Liv. ii. 51, 52 ; Dionys. ix. 18—27 ; Diod. xi.
of Epeirus, to whom she brought as her dower the 53 ; Gell. xvii. 21. )
important island of Corcyra, which had been lately 3. T. MENENIUS AGRIPPAE P. AGRIPPAE N.
acquired by Agathocles. She became the mother, LANATUS, called by Livy Titus, and by Dionysius
of two sons, Alexander, the successor of Pyrrhus, Lucius, but by the other authorities Titus, was
and Helenus ; but, indignant at finding herself consul with P. Sestius Capitolinus Vaticanus, B. C.
neglected by her husband for his other two wives, 452, the year before the first decemvirate. (Liv.
who were both of barbarian origin (PYRRHUS), she ji. 32 ; Dionys. x. 54 ; Diod. xii. 22. ) It appears
withdrew to Corcyra, and sent to Demetrius, king from Festus (s. v. peculatus) that the consuls of
of Macedonia, to offer him at once her hand and this year had something to do with the lex Ateria
the possession of the island. Demetrius accepted | Tarpeia, which had been passed two years pre-
her proposal, and sailing to Corcyra, celebrated his viously, but the passage in Festus, as it stands at
nuptials with her, left a garrison in the island, and present, is not intelligible.
returned to Macedonia. This was shortly before 4.
