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Lycambes

Lycambes, ae, m., = Λυκάμβης,
  • a Theban who promised his daughter to Archilochus, and afterwards refused her; for which he was pursued by the poet with such bitter sarcasm that he hung both himself and his daughter: qualis Lycambae spretus infido gener, Hor. Epod. 6, 13; cf. id. Ep. 1, 19, 30. —Hence,
  • II Lycambēus, a, um, adj., of Lycambes: sanguis, Ov. Ib. 54.

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