Lasus

LASUS

LASUSa town of Crete, enumerated by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 4.12) among his list of inland cities. A coin with the epigraph ΛΑΤΙΩΝ, the Doric form for Λασίων, is claimed by Eckhel (vol. 2. p. 316, comp. Sestini, p. 53) for this place.

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Lasus

(Λᾶσος). A native of Hermioné in Argolis, a lyric poet and the teacher of Pindar. He lived at Athens under the patronage of Hipparchus. His works have perished See Herod. vii. 6.

Lasus Lasus, of Hermione

• his detection of a forgery: Hdt. 7.6