A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

LA-BRANDE UTS. LACHARES. 699
enemy of Asinius Pollio, whom he branded in one had Mt Labranda. (Herod. v. 119; Strab. xiv.
of his orations as the casnar or parasite of Angus- p. 659; Plut. Qzuaest. Gr. 46.) [L. S.]
tus. He is represented by the elder Seneca as LABYNE'TUS (Aaev'vyr7os), a name common
very poor, of an infamous character, and universally to several of the Babylonian monarchs. It seems
hated; but his oratorical talents must have been to have been a title rather than a proper name. A
very great, as Seneca justly remarks, to have ob- Labynetus is mentioned by Herodotus (i. 74) as
tained under these circumstances the remarkable mediating, in conjunction with a prince of Cilicia,
reputation which he enjoyed as an orator. In his a peace between Cyaxares and Alyattes. From
speeches he adopted a style of oratory which par- the chronology, it is clear that this Labynetus
took of the leading characteristics both of the an- must have been identical with Nebuchadnezzar.
cient and modern schools, so that each party could Another Labynetus is mentioned by Herodotus
claim him. The history which Labienus wrote (i. 77) as a contemporary of Cyrus and Croesus,
was apparently one of his own times; since the with the latter of whom he was in alliance. This
elder Seneca relates, that when he heard him on Labynetus is the same with the Belshazzar of the
one occasion reading his history, he passed over a prophet Daniel. By other writers he is called Nagreat part, remarking that it could only be read after bonadius or Nabonidus. He was the last king
his death; but if the work had related merely to of Babylon. [CYRUS.] The mode in which the
past times,he probably would not have feared to have city was captured by Cyrus is described by Heroread it. Labienus seems never to have been en- dotus, i. 188. [C. P. M.]
gaged in any plots against Augustus; but his LACEDAEMON (AaKESaaC/u v), a son of Zeus
enemies at length revenged themselves upon him, by'Taygete, was married to Sparta, the daughter of
by obtaining a decree of the senate that all his Eurotas, by whom he became the father of Amyclas,
writings should be burnt. This indignity affected Eurydice, and Asine. He was king of the country
Labienus so much, that, resolving not to survive which he called after his own name, Lacedaemon,
the productions of his genius, he shut himself up while he gave to his capital the name of his wife,
in the tombs of his ancestors, and thus perished. Sparta. (Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 3; Pans. iii. 1. ~ 2,
His death probably took place in A. D. 12, as Dion &c.; Steph. Byz. s. v.'Aari/.) He was believed
Cassius relates (lvi. 27) that several libellous works to have built the sanctuary of the Charites, which
were burnt in that year. Caligula allowed the stood between Sparta and Amyclae, and to have
writings of Labienus, as well as those of Cremutius given to those divinities the names of Cleta and
Cordus and Cassius Severus, which had shared the Phaenna. (Paus. iii. 18. ~ 4.) An heroum was
same fate, to be again collected and read. (Senec. erected to him in the neighbourhood of Therapne.
Controv. v. pp. 328-330, ed. Bipont.; Suet. Cal. (Pauns. iii. 20. ~ 2.) [L. S.]
16.) LACEDAEMO'NIUS (Aawesal~dvlosr), son of
We find mention of only three orations of La- Cimon, so named by his father in honour of the'
bienus:-1. An oration for Figulus against the Lacedaemonians, had for his mother, according to
heirs of Urbinia: the cause of the latter was Stesimbrotus, an Arcadian; according to Diodorus
pleaded by C. Asinius Pollio. (Quintil. -iv. 1. ~ Periegetes, Isodice, daughter of Euryptolemus, son
11; Tac. de Orat. 38.) 2. An oration against of Megacles. He was joint commander of.the ten
Pollio, which may, however, be the same as the ships which the Athenians, after making alliance
preceding, and which was ascribed by some to with the Corcyreans, despatched to assist them, B. c.
Cornelius Gallus. (Quintil. i. 5. ~ 8.) 3. An 432. Plutarch has what seems a foolish story,
oration against Bathyllus, the freedman of Maece- that this appointment to a quite inadequate
nas, who was defended by Gallio. (Senec. Controv. squadron was a piece of political spite on the part
v. p. 330.) of Pericles; and that the reinforcement which
(De Chambort, Dissert. sur T. Labienus, in the quickly followed was only sent in consequence of
Ml/lem. de l'Acad. des Inscript. vol. x. pp. 98-110; general complaints. (Plut. Cilr. 16, Per. 29;
Meyer, Orator. Roent. Fragmenta, pp. 528-531, Thuc. i. 45.) [A. H. C.]
2nd ed.; Westermann, Gescl. der Jomischen Be- LACE'DAS (AanrOcas), or, as Herodotus (vi.
redtsamkeit, ~ 73, n. 3; Weichert, de Cassio Par- 127) calls him, Leocedes, a king of Argos, and
mensi, pp..319-324; comp. Bentley, ad Hor. father of Melas, is reckoned to have been a deSernz. i. 3. 82, who proposes to read Labieno in- scendant of Medon in the fifth generation. (Paus.
stead of Labeone in that passage.) ii. 19. ~ 2.) Another person of the same name is
LABO'1'AS (Aa~cras, Pans.), fourth king of Lacedas, the son of Pheidon. Some writers not
Sparta in the line of Agis, has nothing recorded of only identify the two, but try to prove that the}
his reign except'that he saw the commencement of Lacydas mentioned by Plutarch (De Cap. ex inim,
the'Spartan quarrel with Argos. (Paus. iii. 2. util. 89.) is likewise the same person. (Comp.
~ 3.) Herodotus says that Lycurgus was his uncle Wyttenbach, ad Plut. I. c.; Schubart and Wala
and guardian.' The other account, which names the ad Pans. 1. c.) [L. S.]
Proclid Charilaus as the name of the young king, LACER, C. JU'LIUS, an architect in the time
is so generally stated by ancient writers [CHARI- of Trajan. His name is preserved in an inscriptionl
LA.sJ], that, although Pausanias read the passage in on a bridge wyhich he built over the Tagus at AlN
Herodotus as it hiow'stands, Wesseling and Clinton cantara. (Gruter, p. 162.) [P. S.]
approve the correction, 7rsTpo0rvuovsTa daseA(p- C. LACE'RIUS, tribune of the plebs, B.C. 401,
8o0v e' deuvToe, BaoXev'oelVos 8e 7raPTq7&e.o was elected by the other tribunes (by cooptatio)
AescwireC. ('Herod. i. 65.) A similar difficulty at- through the influence of the patricians, who were
taches to the name, which Pausanias says Herodotus anxious to set aside the Lex Trebonia. (Liv. v.
spelt AcwC9o&rs; whereas our MSS., it seems, have 10.)
only AeCfW'rTew and A[lsE ow. [A. H. C.] LA'CHARES (AaXdp7s), an Athenian, was
LABRANDEUS (AaCpav'e6s), a surname of one of the most influential demagogues in his native
Zeus Stratius, which he derived from a temple he city, after the democracy had been re-established: