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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before the close of the year 323 B.C.: though still barbarians in the Persian war. He was uniformly
quite a young man, it appears that he left children, successful in the field, and might have reduced the
whose statues were set up by the side of his own whole of Thessaly, had he not yielded to the bribes
in the Peiraeeus. (Paus. i. 1. ~ 3). [E. H.B.] of the Aleuadae. For this he was brought to trial
LEOSTRA'TIDES, a silver-chaser, who lived on his return home, and went into exile to Tegea,
at Rome in the time of Pompey the Great, and B.C. 469, where he died. His houseatSparta was
executed works representing battles and armed men razed to the ground. His son, Zeuxidamus, died
(Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 12. s. 55). The name has before his banishment, and he was succeeded on
been corrupted, in the common editions of Pliny, into the throne by his grandson, Archidamus II. By a
Laedus Stratiates, and the true reading is not quite second wife he had a daughter, named Lampito,
certain. Thiersch proposes Lysistratides (Epoch. pp. whom he gave in marriage to Archidamus. (Herod.
297, 298; comp. Sillig. Catal. Artif. s. v.) [P. S.] vi. 71, 72; Pans. iii. 7; Diod. xi. 48; Clinton,
LEOTRO'PHIDES (AsEWTpoplf6s), one of the F. H. vol. ii. pp. 209, 210.)
Athenian dithyrambic poets, whom Aristophanes 3. Fourth in descent from No. 2, was grandson
ridicules (Av. 1405, 6). The meagreness of his of Archidamus II., and son of Agis II. There
person, as well as of his poetry, made him a stand- was, however, some suspicion that he was in
ing jest with the comic poets. (Schol. in Aristoph. reality the fruit of an intrigue of Alcibiades with
1. c.; Suid. s. v.; Ath. xii. p. 551, a. b.) [P. S.] Timaea, the queen of Agis, a suspicion which was
LEOTY'CHIDES (Aeo-vx/3's&, AevUTvxUs -q3, strengthened (soa Pausanias says) by some angry
Herod.) 1. Son of Anaxilaus, of the royal blood expressions of Agis himself, and also by Timaea's
of the Eurypontids, and fourth progenitor of No. own language, according to Duris and Plutarch.
2. (Herod. viii. 131.) Agis indeed before his death repented of what he
2. Son of Menares, and sixteenth of the Eury- had said on the subject, and publicly owned Leopontids. Having become king of Sparta, about tychides for his son. On his father's demise,
B. c. 491, on the deposition of Demaratus, through however, he was excluded from the throne on the
the contrivance of Cleomenes and the collusion of above grounds, mainly through the influence of
the Delphic oracle [CLEOcMENES; DEMARATUS], Lysander, and his uncle, Agesilaus II., was subhe accompanied Cleomenes to Aegina, and aided stituted in his room. (Pans. iii. 8; Duris, ap. Plut.
him in seizing the hostages, of whom he had pre- Ages. 3; Plut. Ale. 23, Lysancd. 22; Xen. Ages. 1,
viously attempted topossess himself in vain. (Herod. Hell. iii. 3. ~~ 1-4; Just. v. 2.) [E. E.]
vi. 65, &c.; Paus. iii. 4.) On the death of Cleo- LE'PIDA, AEMI'LIA. 1. The daughter of
menes, soon after, the Aeginetans complained at Paullus Aemilius Lepidus, consul B. c. 34 [LFaSparta of the detention of their hostages by the PIDrrus, No. 19] and Cornelia, was born in the
Athenians, in whose hands they had been placed, censorship of her father, B. C. 22. (Propert. iv.
and the Lacedaemonians thereupon decided that 11, 67.) Of her future history nothing is known.
Leotychides should be given up, by way of satis- 2. The sister of M. Aemilius Lepidus, who
fiction, to the complainants. On the proposal, was consul A. D. 11. [LEPIDJSs, No. 25.] She
however, of a Spartan named Theasides, it was was descended from L. Sulla and Cn. Pompey, and
agreed that Leotychides should proceed to Athens was at one time destined for the wife of L. Caesar,
and recover the prisoners; but the men thus de- the grandson of Augustus. She was, however,
tained belonged, doubtless, to the oligarchical party subsequently married to P. Quirinus, who divorced
at Aegina, and the Athenians refused to give them her, and who, twenty years after the divorce, in
up, alleging that they had been placed with them by A. D.'20, accused her of having falsely pretended to
Cleomenes and Leotychides together, whereas the have had a son by him: at the same time she was
latter only had come to claim them. The remon- charged with adultery, poisoning, and having constrances of Leotychides, backed though they were suited the Chaldaeans for the purpose of injuring
by the warning anecdote of the perjury and punish- the imperial family. Though she was a woman of
mnent of GLAUCvS [see above, p. 275, b.], were of abandoned character, her prosecution by her former
no avail, and he returned to Sparta with the object husband excited much compassion among the people;
of his mission unaccomplished. (Herod. vi. 85, 86.) but as Tiberius, notwithstanding his dissimulation,
In B. C. 479, after the flight of Xerxes, we find was evidently in favour of the prosecution, Lepida
J.eotychides in command of the Greek fleet at was condemned by the senate, and interdicted
Aegina,-a most unusual appointment for a Spartan from fire and water. (Tac. Ann. iii. 22, 23; Suet.
king (see Arist. Pol. ii. 9, ed. Bekk.), and hence Tib. 49.)
he advanced as far as Delos; but, in spite of the 3. The great grand-daughter of Augustus, being
entreaties of the Chians, fear of the Persians kept the daughter of L. Aemilius Paullus, consul in
him from sailing further eastward, until an embassy A. D. 1 [LEPID)us, No. 22], and Julia, the grandfrom the Samians, and further information doubt- daughter of Augustus. She was married to the
less as to the condition and spirit of Ionia, induced emperor Claudius long before his accession to the
him to proceed to Samos to aid the Ionians in their throne, when he was quite young, but was either
intended revolt. The Persians fled at his approach to divorced or died soon after the marriage. (Suet.
Mycale, where theirarmy was stationed. Here they Claud. 26.)
disembarked, and drew up their ships on shore: the 4. The daughter of M. Aemilius Lepidus, consul
Greeks also landed, Leotychides having first called A. D. 6 [LEPIDus, No. 23], was married to Drusus,
aloud on the Ionians in the enemy's army to aid in the son of Germanicus and Agrippina. [DIRUss,
the attainment of their own freedom; and in the No. 18.] She was a woman of abandoned chabattle of Mycale, which ensued, the Persians were racter, and frequently made charges against her
utterly defeated. (Herod. viii. 131, 132, ix. 90- husband, doubtless with the view of pleasing Tibe-.92, 96-106; Diod. xi. 34; Paus. iii. 7.) After- rius, who hated Drusus. During the lifetime of
wards Leotychides was sent with an army into her father, who was always highly esteeined by
Thessaly to punish those who had sided with the Tiberins, she could do much as she pleased; but