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

ILEARCHUS. LEDA. 727
Hipponicus (Andoc. llIyst. p. 126, Bekk.), so that Clearchi of Rhegium, one near the beginning, and
the genealogy stands thus, the other at the end of the Daedalian period, or
Glaucon I. else we must account for the statement of Pausanias
by supposing that, as often happens, a vague tradiLeagrus I. tion affixed the name of a well-known ancient
l artist to a work whose true origin was lost in reGlaucon II.' mote antiquity.
2. Some recently discovered painted vases, in
- the collection of the Prince of Canino at Rome,
Leagrus II. a daughter=-Callias III. bear the name of Learchus of Rhegium. It is in[A. H. C.] ferred from the inscriptions that there were two
LEANDER (Aedavcpos), the famous youth of Vase painters of this name. (Nagler, Neues AllgeAbydos, who, from love of Hero, the priestess of meines Kiinstler Lexicon, s. v.) [P. S.]
Aphrodite, in Sestus, swam every night across the LECA'NIUS, 1. C. One of the consuls in
Hellespont, being guided by the light of the light- A. D. 65 (Tac. Ann. xv. 3; Fasti), and probably
house of Sestus. Once during a very stormy night the same person with Q. Lecanius Bassus, a conthe light was extinguished, and he perished in the temporary of the elder Pliny, who died from puncwaves. On the next morning his corpse was turing a carbuncle on his left hand. (Plin. H. N.
washed on the coast of Sestus, and Hero, on seeing xxvi. 1 (4); comp. Ryckius ad Tac. Ann. xv. 3.)
it, threw herself into the sea. This story is the 2. A soldier, one of the several persons to whom
subject of the epic poem of Musaeus, entitled De Galba's death-blow was attributed, A. D. 69. (Tac.
A more Herois et Leardri, and is also mentioned by Hist. i. 41.) [W. B. D.]
Ovid (Her. xsiii. 19), Statius (Theb. vi. 535), and LECA'NIUS AREIUS. [AREIUs.]
Virgil (Georg. iii. 258, &c.) [L. S.] LECAPENUS, GEORGIUS. [GEoRGIUS,
LEANDER or LEA'NDRIUS (A'kavspos or No. 30.]
Aecivspios), of Miletus, seems to have been the LECHEA'TES (AefXedT's) i. e. the protector
author of a work on the history of his native city. of childbed, a surname of Zeus, who, as the father
A few quotations from it are still extant, but of Athena, was worshipped under this name at
we have no means of determining the age at Aliphera. (Paus. viii. 26. ~ 4.) [L. S.]
which Leander lived. (Diog. Laert. i. 28, 41; LECHES (A'Xlrs), a son of Poseidon and
Clem. Alex. Protrept. p. 13, Strom. i. p. 129, vi. Peirene, and brother of Cenchrias. (Panus. ii. 2.
p. 267; Euseb. Praep. Ev. ii. p. 45; Theodoret. ~ 3, 24. ~ 7.) [L. S.]
Tl/erap. i. p. 700, viii. p. 909; Schol. ad Apollon. LEDA (A1ia), a daughter of Thestius, whence
Rikod. ii. 706.) [L. S.] she is called Thestias (Apollod; iii. 1 0. ~ 5; Pans.
LEANEIRA. [APHEIDAS.] iii. 13. ~ 8; Eurip. Iph. Aiu. 49); but others call
LEARCHUS. [ATrHArMA.] her a daughter of Thespins, Thyestes, or Glaucus;
LEARCHUS (Ae'apXos). 1. Of Rhegium, is by Laophonte, Deidamia, Leucip'pe, Eurythemis, or
one of those Daedalian artists who stand on the Paneidyia. (Schol. ad Apollon. 2hod. i. 146, 201;
~confines of the mythical and historical periods, and Serv. ad Aen. viii. 130; Hygin, Fab. 14; Apollod
about whom we have extremely uncertain inform- i. 7. ~ 10.) She was the wife of Tyndareus, by
ation. One account made him a pupil of Daedalus, whom she became the mother of Timandra, Clyanother of Dipoenus and Scyllis. (Paus. iii. 17. taemnestra, and Philonoe. (Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 6;
~ 6.) Pausanias savw, in the Brazen House at Hom. Od. xxiv. 199.) One night she was embraced
Sparta, a statue of Zeus by him, which was made both by her husband and by Zeus, and by the former
of separate pieces of hammered bronze, fastened she became the mother of Castor and Clytaemtogether with nails. Pausanias adds, that this was nestra, and by the latter of Polydeuces and Helena.
the most ancient of all existing statues in bronze. (Hygin. Fab. 77.) According to Homer (Od. xi.
It evidently belonged to a period when the art of 298, &c.) both Castor and Polydeuces were sons
casting in bronze was not yet known. But this is of Tyndareus and Leda, while Helena is described
inconsistent with the account which made Learchus *as a daughter of Zeus. (Il. iii. 426; comp. Ov.
the pupil of Dipoenus and Scyllis, for these artists Fast. i. 706; Horat. Carm. i;. 12, 25; Martial, i.
are said to have been the inventors of sculpture-in 37.) Other traditions revers6 the story, making
marble, an art which is generally admitted to have Castor and Polydeuces the'sons of Zeus, and
had a later origin than that of casting in bronze. Helena the daughter of Tyndareus. (Eurip. Helen.
Moreover, Rhoecus and Theodorus, the inventors 254,1497, 1680; Schol. ad4Apollon. 1hod. ii. 808;
of casting in bronze, are placed about the beginning Herod. ii. 112.) According to the common legend
of the Olympiads. Learchus must, therefore, have Zeus visited Leda in the disguise of a swan, and
flourished still earlier; but the date of Dipoenus she produced two eggs, from the one of which issued
Lnd Scyllis is, according to the only account we Helena, and from the other Castor and Polydeuces.
have of it, about 200 years later. [DiPoxNus.] (Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 453; Ov. Her. xvii. 55;
The difficulty is rather increased than diminished Paus. iii. 16. ~ 1; Horat. Ars Poet. 147; Athen.
if we substitute for AelapXov, in the passage of ii. p. 57, &c., ix. p. 373; Lucian, Dial. Deor. ii.
Pausanias, KAEaoXov, which is probably the true 2, xxiv. 2, xxvi.; comp. Virgil, Cir. 489; Tzetz.
reading. (See the editions of Schubart and Walz, ad Lycopk. 88.) The visit of Zeus to Leda in the
and Bekker.) In another passage, Pausanias form of a swan was frequently represented by
mentions (vi. 4. ~ 2) Clearchus of Rhegium as the ancient artists. It should be observed that Phoebe
instructor of Pythagoras of Rhegium, and the is also mentioned as a daughter of Tyndareus and
pupil of Eucheirus of Corinth. This Clearchus Leda (Eurip. Iph. Aul. 50), and that, according to
must therefore have lived about B. c. 500, eighty Lactantius (i. 21.), Leda was after her death raised
years later than Dipoenus and Scyllis. We must to the rank of a divinity, under the name of
therefore either assume the existence of two Nemesis. (Comp. TYNDARESJS.) [L. S.1
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