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Headword:
*lugkeu/s
Adler number: lambda,776
Translated headword: Lynkeus, Lynceus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of
Samos, scholar, pupil of
Theophrastus,[1] brother of Douris the historian who was also tyrant of
Samos.[2] Lynkeus was a contemporary of
Menander the comic poet[3] and produced plays in competition against him and won.
*lugkeu/s, *sa/mios, grammatiko/s, *qeofra/stou gnw/rimos, a)delfo\s *dou/ridos tou= i(storiogra/fou, tou= kai\ turannh/santos *sa/mou. su/gxronos de\ ge/gonen o( *lugkeu\s *mena/ndrou tou= kwmikou= kai\ a)ntepedei/cato kwmw|di/as kai\ e)ni/khse.
Notes:
C4/3 BCE; Kassel-Austin, PCG 5.616-617.
[1] Alternatively, "acquaintance", though the Suda does regularly use
gnw/rimos as a variant on
maqhth/s. For
Theophrastus see generally
theta 199.
[2] This Douris does not have an entry of his own, but see under
delta 1432. For Douris as tyrant of
Samos see G. Shipley,
A History of Samos 800-188 BC (Oxford 1987) 177-181 and index s.v. Douris(1).
[3] See generally
mu 589.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 June 2003@09:09:17.
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