person
Lysimachus
A companion of Alexander whom the king threw to a lion (by another account he killed it bare-handed); later a Successor king.
Reading notes
- On Mercy §1.25 Lysimachus
A companion of Alexander, by this account thrown to a lion at the king's order; later one of the Successors.
- On Anger §3.17 Lysimachus
A companion of Alexander thrown to a lion; later a Successor king.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §8.70.6 a tyrant
Lysimachus, one of Alexander's generals and later a king, notorious in the moralists for his cruelty; here the captor who caged Telesphorus.