Lamprias

(Λαμπίας). a name which occurs three times in the history of the family of Plutarch of Chaeroneia.

1. The grandfather of Plutarch. (Anton. 28; De Defect. Orac. 8, 38, 46, &c.; Sympos. 1.5, 5.5, 9.2.)

2. A brother of Plutarch, and a follower of the Peripatetic philosopthy. (Sympos. 1.2, 8, 2.2, 8.6.)

3. A son of Plutarch. Works List of Plutarch's Works

According to Suidas (s. v. Λαμπρίας), he made a list of all his father's works. This list is still extant.

This list, though it is preceded by a letter in which the author calls himself a son of Plutarch, call scarcely be the production of so near a relation and contemporary of Plutarch, for it contains works which are acknowledged by all to have been written many centuries later, perhaps not long before the time of Suidas. It is, however, not impossible that the titles of these spurious works may have been introduced by a later hand, and that the groundwork may really be the work of Lamprias, a son of Plutarch. Editions

This was first published by D. Hoeschelius, from a Florentine MS., and afterwards reprinted in the Frankfort edition of Plutarch's works. It is also printed in Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vol. v. p. 159, &c., with some additions and alterations from a Venetian MS. Further Information

Comp. A. Schäfer, Comment. de Libro Vit. Decem Orator. p. 2, &c.

Another person of the name of Lamprias, though it is perhaps only a fictitious person, occurs in Lucian. (Dialog. Meretr. 3.) [L.S]