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

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reward several provinces, and an annual tribute of Peripatetic philosophy. (Symnpos. i. 2, 8, ii. 2,
4000 pieces of gold. Stilicho, who had been viii. 6.)
carrying on intrigues with Alaric, to the disad- 3. A son of Plutarch, who, according to Suidas
vantage of Rome, proposed in the senate to accept (s. v. AalA7rptas), made a list of all his father's
those conditions, since the troubles by which Gaul works. This list, which is still extant, was first
was then shaken could not be quelled without the published by D. Hoeschelius, from a Florentine
aid of the Goths. But Lampadius boldly rose, MS., and afterwards reprinted in the Frankfort
and, using the words of Cicero, " Non est ista edition of Plutarch's works. It is also printed in
pax, sed pactio servitutis!" violently opposed Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vol. v. p. 159, &c., with
the conclusion of such a degrading convention. 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 confavourably spoken of. (Zosim. pp. 335, 336, ed. tains works which are acknowledged by all to have
Oxford, 1679.) [W. P.] been written many centuries later, perhaps not long
LAMPE'TIA (Aac7re7rt), a daughter of Helios before the time of Suidas. It is, however, not
by the nymph Neaera. 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. Some 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.)
Foab. 1,54; Ov. Met. ii. 349.) [L. S.] Another person of the name of Lamprias, though
LA'MPIDO,or LA'MPITO. [LEOTYCHIDES.] it is perhaps only a fictitious person, occurs in LuLAMPON (Adwrcw). 1. A native of Aegina, cian. (Dialog. Mlferetr. 3.) [L. S.]
son of Pytheas [PYTHEAS], mentioned by Hero- LAMPRI'DIUS AE'LIUS, 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. Comby insulting and mutilating the corpse of Mar- modus; 2. Antoninus Diadumenus; 3. Elagabalus,
donius. and 4. Alexander Severos; 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 Apa7rert ehs (Meineke, Fragm. MS. all the lives from Hadrianus down to AlexCom. 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 plausipility, 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 supcolony which founded Thurii on the site of the position in some degree confirmed by the circumancient 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
SoupLOUAdPeTrS.) 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 can
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 MaM. LAMPO'NIUS, 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 Diocleallies 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,
LICIN1US, 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 [CAPr
Lucanians had become the allies of the Marian TOLIN US] 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. LA'MPROCLES (AaArpoKcAis). 1. The eldest
8ull. 29.; Flor. iii. 21; Eutrop. v. 8.)'A7r6vvos 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,
LA'MPRIAS (Aapnrpias), 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 Mixo1. 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 brother of Plutarch, and a follower of the p. 387, Bekker.) The ode to Pallas, which is re