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

844 LYCINUS. LYCISCUS.
Itone, was king of Crete and husband of Ida, the conquest by the Romans. (Niebuhr, Kielne Sc&lrji
daughter of Corybas (Diod. iv. 60). The town of p. 461].) [E. H. B.]
Lycastus in Crete derived its name from him or an LYCIS (Au'Kis), an Athenian comic poet, who is
autochthon of the same name (Steph. Byz. s. v.). only known by the reference to him in the Frogs
A story about another Lycastus, likewise a Cretan, of Aristophanes (14; comp. Schol. and Suid. s. v.).
is related by Parthenius (Erot. 35). [L. S.] He is also called Lycus. In fact Lycis, Lycius,
LY'CEAS (Avrcsas), of Naucratis, the author of and Lycus, are only different forms of the same
a work on Egypt, which is mentioned by Athe- name. (Ruhnken, ad Rutil. Lup. p. 100.) [P. S.]
naeus (xiii. p. 560, e.; xiv. p. 616, d.) and by LYCISCUS (AvKC[-KOS). 1. A Messenian, dePliny, in his list of authorities for his 36th scended from Aepytus. In the first Messenian
book. - -..[P. S.] war, the Messenians, having consulted the Delphic
LYCE'GENES (Av77,yevrs), a surname of oracle,.were told that to save their country, they
Apollo, describing him either as the god born in must offer by night, tothe gods below, an unstained
Lycia, or as the god born of light. (Hom. II. iv. virgin of the blood of the Aepytidae. The lot fell
101, 119; comp. LYcRIus.) [L. S.] on the daughter of Lyciscus; but Epebolus, the
LYCEIA (Avtceta), a.. surname of Artemis, seer, pronounced her to be unfit for the sacrifice, as
under which she had a temple at Troezene, built being no daughter of Lyciscus at all, but a suppoby Hippolytus. (Paus. ii. 31. ~ 6.). [L. S.] sititious child. Meanwhile, Lyciscus, in alarm,
LY.CEIUS (Ai'celos), a surname of Apollo, the took the maiden with him and withdrew to Sparta.
meaning of which is not quite certain, for some de- Here she died; and several years after, as he was
rive it from AhKOS, a wolf, so that it would mean visiting her tomb, to which he often resorted, he
"'.the wolf-slayer;' others from AVKJl, light, ac- was seized by some Arcadian. horsemen, carried
cording to which it would mean "the giver of back to Ithome, and put upon his trial for treason.
light;" and others again from the country of Lycia. His defence was, that he had fled, not as being
There are indeed passages in the ancient writers hostile to his country or indifferent to her fate, but
by which each of these three derivations may be in the full belief of what Epebolus had declared.
satisfactorily proved. As for the derivation from. This being unexpectedly confirmed by the priestess
Lycia, we know that he was worshipped at mount of Hera, who confessed that she was herself the
Cragus and Ida in Lycia; but he was also wor- mother of the girl, Lyciscus was acquitted. (Paus.
shipped at Lycoreia on mount Parnassus, at iv. 9, 12.) [ARISTODEMUS, No. 1.]
Sicyon (Paus. ii. 9. ~ 7), Argos (ii. 19. ~ 3), and 2. An Athenian demagogue, obliged EuryptoAthens (i. 19. ~ 4). In nearly all cases, more- lemus to drop his threatened prosecution of Calliover, where the god appears with this name, we xenus for his illegal decree against the commanders
find traditions concerning wolves. Thus the de- who had conquered at Arginusae, B. c. 406, by
scendants of Deucalion, who founded Lycoreia, moving that such as attempted to prevent the peofollowed a wolf's roar; Latona came to Delos as a pie from doing what they chose should have their
she-wolf, and she was conducted by wolves to the fate decided by the same ballot as the generals
river Xanthus; wolves protected the treasures of themselves. (Xen. Hell. i. 7. ~ 13.) It is possible
Apollo; and near the great altar at Delphi there that the comedy of Alexis, called "Lyciscus," had
stood an iron wolf with inscriptions. (Paus. x. reference to this demagogue. (See Meineke, Frag.
14. ~ 4.) The attack of a wolf upon a herd of Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 274,275, iii. p. 446; Athen.
cattle occasioned the worship of Apollo Lyceius at xiii. p. 595, d.)
Argos (Plut. Psyrr. 32; comp. Schol. ad Apollon. 3. An officer of Cassander, was sent by him to
Rhod. ii. 124); and.the Sicyonians are said to Epeirus as regent and general, when the Epeirots
have been taught by Apollo in what manner they had passed sentence of banishment against their
should get rid of wolves.:...(Paus.:ii. 19. ~ 3.) In king Aeacides and allied themselves with Cassanaddition to all. this, Apollo is called AvRocrTdvos. der, in B. C. 316. In B. c. 314, Cassauder left him
(Soph. Elect. 7; Pans. ii. 9. ~ 7; Hesych. s. v.) in command of a strong body of troops in AcarnaApollo, by the name of Lyceius, is therefore gene- nia, which he had organised against the Aetolians,
rally. characterised as the destroyer. (Mailler, who. favoured the cause of Antigonus. Lyciscus
)0or. ii. 6. ~ 8.) [L. S.] was still commanding in Acarnania, in B. c. 312,
LY'CIDAS (Avl8srs), a member of the senate when he was sent with an army into Epeirus
of Five Hundred at Athens, who was- stoned to against Alcetas II. whom he defeated. He also
death by, his fellow-citizens, because he advised took the town of Eurymenae, and destroyed it.
them to listen to the proposals of peace.offered by (Diod. xix. 36, 67, 88.)
]A!Mardonius in B.C. 479: his wife and children 4. An officer of Agathocles, by whom he was
suffered the same fate at the hands of the Athenian much esteemed for his military talents. During
women. (Herod. ix. 5.) The same story is related the expedition of Agathocles to Africa (e.'c. 309),
of Cyrsilus at the. invasion of Xerxes eleven years Lyciscus, being heated with wine at a banquet,
before [CYRsILus]; and both tales probably refer assailed his master with abuse, which the latter
to only one event.. u met only with good-humoured jesting. But Archa-. LY'CINUS. (AdKlvor), an Italian Greek, an gathus, the son of Agathocles, was greatly exaspeexile from his native city, who entered the service rated; and when Lyciscus, in answer to his threats.of Antigonus Gonatas, and was appointed by him after the banquet, threw in his teeth his suspected
to command the garrison, which he left in pos- intrigue with his step-mother Alcia, he seized a
session of Athens, after the termination of the Chre- spear and slew him. The consequence was a formonidean war, B.c. 263. (Teles, ap. Stobaeum, midable.mutiny in the army, which it required all
Floril. ii. p. 82, ed. Gaisf.; Droysen, Hellenism. vol. the boldness and prudence of Agathocles to quell.
ii. pp. 206, 222.): Niebuhr conjectures, plausibly (Diod. xx. 33, 34.).
enough, that Lycinus was a native of Tarentum, 5. An Acarnanian, was sent by his countrymen
*and had been compelled to fly from that city on its, as ambassador to the Lacedaemonians, B. c. 211