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716 LANASSA. LANATUS.
ferred to by Aristophanes (Nub. 967), was ascribed the war that terminated in his final overthrowi,
to Lamprocles by Phrynichus, though Eratosthenes probably in 288 B. c. (Plut. Pyr rh. 9, 1 0; Diod.
and others ascribed it to Phrynichus himself, while EBc. Hoesck. xxi. p. 490, xxii. p. 496; Justin.
some made Stesichorus its author. (Schol. in xxiii. 3.) [E. H. B.]
Aristoph. I. c.) The scholiast who makes this LANA'TUS, the name of a family of the Menstatement 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), speakthat 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. Bibl. Gracc. 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
]Dois. Graec. p.462.) [P. S.] have been made patricians, probably during the
LAMPRUS (Aawurp4s), the husband of Gala- reign of one of the later Roman kings.
teia. [GALATEIA, No. 2.] [L. S.] 1. AGRiPPA MENENIUS C. F. LANATUS, consul,
LAMPRUS (Ad/oirpos). 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. (Ilenex. 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, wasbrought to a happy and peacereference 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 exenus. (Suid. s. v.'AporTterors.) pences of any but a most ordinary funeral, he was
3. A grammarian mentioned in the Mayna Mo- buried at the public expence in a most splendid
ralia ascribed to Aristotle, ii. 7. (Fabric. Bibl. manner: the plebeians had made voluntary conGraec. vol. ii. p. 128.) [P. S.] tributions for the purpose, which were given to the
LAMPTER (AaiarVsp), 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 Aaptwr'ipta 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 (AdlAros). 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. II. iii. 1 47, 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. M#tk. i. 11), ruling party in the senate. He paid, however,
the other to Hector. (Hom. 11. viii. 185.) [L. S.] dearly for this act of treachery. The Etruscans
LAMUS (Ad/yos), a son of Poseidon, was king flushed with victory defeated his army, and took
of the Laestrygones. (Hom. Od. x. 81; Eustath. possession of the Janiculus: and in the following
ad Hornm. p. 1649; Horat. Carm. iii. 17, 1; comp. year the tribunes brought him to trial for having
LAMIUs.) [L. S.] neglected to assist the Fabii. As they did not
LAMY'NTHIUS (AaAJutiOos), of Miletus, a wish for the blood of the son of their great beneGreek 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 (Ad'aaoaa), 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 F. AGRIPPAB 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 iii. 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 Aternia
the possession of the island. Demetrius accepted Tarpeia, which had been passed two years preher 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. L. MENENIUS T. F. AGRIPPAE N. LANATUS,