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712 LAIPPUS. LA IS.
long to the same or different works have been LIAIS (Aais), a niame borne by more than one
brought together by Weichert, whose assumptions Grecian Hetaera. Two were celebrated; but, as
are, however, in some instances, in the highest de- the ancient writers in their accounts and anecdotes
gree arbitrary and fanciful. (Weichert, Poetarum respecting them seldom indicate which they refer
Latinorztm Reliquiae, 8vo. Lips. 1830; Wiillner, to, and where they do draw the distinction, freDle Laevio Poeta, 4to. Rocklingh. 1830.) [W. R.] quently speak of the one, while what they say of
LAEVUS, CI'SPIUS, a friend and legatus of her is manifestly applicable only to the other, it is
L. Munatius Plancus, and the bearer of confidential difficult, and sometimes impossible, to decide holv
letters from him'while praefect of Transalpine to apportion the numerous notices respecting them
Gaul, in B.c. 44, to Cicero at Rome. (Cic. ad which have come down to us. Jacobs, who has
Fam. x. 18, 21.) From Livy (v. 35, xxxiii. 37) bestowed some attention on this subject, distinLaevus appears to have been originally a Ligurian guishes the two following:name. [W. B. D.] 1. The elder Lais, a native probably of Corinth.
T. LAFRE'NIUS, the name of one of the leaders Athenaeus (xiii. p. 588) says that she was born at
of the allies in the Marsic war, B. C. 90. He is Hyccara, in Sicily, but he has probably confounded
called by other writers Afranius. [AFRANIUS, her with her younger namesake, the daughter of
No. 8.] Timandra (Athen. xii. p. 535, c. xiii. p. 574, e.);
LA'GIUS (AdysLos), belonged to the Roman for Timandra, as we know from Plutarch (Alcib.
party among the Achaeans, and was one of those 39), was a native of Hyccara. The elder Lais
whom Metellus sent to Diaeus to offer peace, in lived in the time of the Peloponnesian war, and
B. c. 146. For this, Diaeus threw him and his was celebrated as the most beautiful woman of her
colleagues into prison; but he afterwards released age. Her figure was especially admired. (Athen.
them for a sum of money, especially as the people xiii. p. 587, d. 588, e.) She was notorious also for
of Corinth were sufficiently exasperated already by her avarice and caprice. (Athen. xiii. p. 570, c. 588,
the cruel execution of Sosicrates, the lieutenant- c. 585, d.) Amongst her numerous lovers she num-,general. (Pol. xl. 4, 5.) (E. E.j bered the philosopher Aristippus. (Athen. xii. 544,
LAGUS (Acyos). 1. The father, or reputed xiii. 588), two of whose works were entitled Hpos
father, of Ptolemy, the founder of the Egyptian Aa'l'a, and nptos Aacda 7rep l To KaTo'7rTpov. (Diog.
monarchy. He married Arsino6, a concubine of La6rt. ii. 84). She fell in love with and offered
Philip of Macedon, who was said to have been her hand to Eubotas, of Cyrene [EusoTAs],who,
pregnant at the time of their marriage, on which after his victory at Olympia, fulfilled his promise
account the Macedonians generally looked upon of taking her with him to Cyrene, in word onlyPtolemy as in reality the son of Philip. (Paus. i. he took with him her portrait. (Aelian, V. H. x. 2;
6. ~ 2; Curt. ix. 8; Suidas. s. v. Adcyos.) From Clemens Alex. Strom. iii. p. 447, c.) In her old
an anecdote recorded by Plutarch (De cohib. Ira, age she became addicted to drinking. Of her
9, p. 458), it is clear that Lagus was a man of ob- death various stories were told. (Athen. xiii. p..scure birth; hence, when Theocritus (Idyll. xvii. 570, b. d. 587, e.; Phot. cod. cxc. p. 146, 23, ed.
26) calls Ptolemy a. descendant of Hercules, he Bekker.) She died at Corinth, where a monument
probably means to represent him as the son of (a lioness tearing a ram) was erected to her, in the
Philip. Lagus appears to have subsequently mar- cypress grove called the Kpcveiov. (Paus. ii. 2. ~ 4
ried Antigone, niece of Antipater, by whom he Athen. xiii. p. 589, c.) Numerous anecdotes of
became the father of Berenice, afterwards the wife her were current, but they are not worth relating
of her step-brother Ptolemy. (Schol. ad Theocr. here. (Athen. xiii. p. 582; Auson. Epig. 17.)
Id. xvii. 34, 61.) Lais presenting her looking-glass to Aphrodite was
2. A son of Ptolemy I. by the celebrated a frequent subject of epigrams. (Brunck. Anal. i.
Athenian courtezan Thais. (Athen. xiii. p. 576, p..170, 7, ii. p. 494, 5; Anthlol. Pal. vi. 1, 19.)
e.) [E. H. B.] Her fame was still fresh at Corinth in the time
LAGON, a beautiful youth beloved by Brutus. of Pausanias (ii. 2. ~ 5), and oW K~JpivOs o6ire
He was a frequent subject of artistic representa- Aals became a proverb. (Athen. iv. p. 137, d.)
tion. (Mart. ix. 51, xiv. 171; Plin. H. N. 2. The younger Lais was the daughter of
xxxiv. 8.) [C. P.M.] Timandra (see above), who is sportively called
LA'GORAS (Aayo'pas), a Cretan soldier of for- Damasandra in Athenaeus (xiii. p. 574, e.). Lais
tune, who, -when in the service of Ptolemy IV. was probably born at Hyccara in Sicily. Accord(Philopator), was sent by. Nicolaus, Ptolemy's ing to some accounts she was brought to Corinth
general, to occupy the pase-s of Mount Libanus at when seven years old, having been taken prisoner
Berytus, and to check there, the advance of An- in the Athenian expedition to Sicily, and bought
tiochus the Great, who was!'narching upon Ptole- by a Corinthian. (Plut. 1. c.; Paus. ii. 2. ~ 5;
ma'is, B.. 219. He was, however, defeated and Schol. ad Aristoph. Plut. 179; Athen. xiii. p. 589.)
dislodged from his position by the Syrian king. This story however, which involves numerous
In B.C. 215, in the war -of Antiochus against difficulties, is rejected by Jacobs, who attributes it
Achaeus, we find Lagoras in the service of the to a confusion between this Lais and the elder one
former; and it was through his discovery' of an of the same name. The story of Apelles having
unguarded part of the wall of Sardis, that Antiochus induced her to enter upon the life of a courtezan
was enabled to take the city, Lagoras being him- must have reference to the younger Lais. (Athen.
self one of the select party who forced their way xiii. p. 588.) She was a contemporary and rival
into the town over the portion of the wall in ques- of Phryne. (Athen. p. 588, e.) She became
tion. (Pol. v. 61, vii. 15-18.)' [E. E.] enamoured of a Thessalian named Hippolochus,
LAIAS (Aadta), a son of Oxylus and Pieria, or Hippostratus, and accompanied him to Thessaly.
king of Elis. (Paus. v. 4. ~ 2,& ~:omp. AETO- Here, it is said, some Thessalian women, jealous
Lus, No. 2.) [L. S.] of her beauty, enticed her into a temple of AphroLAIPPUS. [DAlrPus.] dite, and there stoned her to death. (Paus. ii. 2