Lycopus, an Ætolian who assisted the Cyreneans against Ptolemy. Polyænus, bk. 8.
Lycorea, a town of Phocis at the top of Parnassus, where the people of Delphi took refuge during Deucalion’s deluge, directed by the howlings of wolves. Pausanias, Phocis, ch. 6.
Lycoreus, the supposed founder of Lycorea, on mount Parnassus, was son of Apollo and Corycia. Hyginus, fable 161.
Ly̆cōrias, one of the attendant nymphs of Cyrene. Virgil, Georgics, bk. 4, li. 339.
Ly̆cōris, a freedwoman of the senator Volumnius, also called Cytheris, and Volumnia, from her master. She is celebrated for her beauty and intrigues. The poet Gallus was greatly enamoured of her, and his friend Virgil, in his 10th eclogue, comforts him for the loss of the favours of Cytheris, who followed Marcus Antony’s camp, and was become the Aspasia of Rome. The charms of Cleopatra, however, prevailed over those of Cytheris, and the unfortunate courtesan lost the favours of Antony and of all the world at the same time. Lycoris was originally a comedian. Virgil, Eclogues, poem 10.—Ovid, Ars Amatoria, bk. 3, li. 537.
Lycormas, a river of Ætolia, whose sands were of a golden colour. It was afterwards called Evenus, from king Evenus, who threw himself into it. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 2, li. 245.
Lycortas, the father of Polybius, who flourished B.C. 184. He was chosen general of the Achæan league, and he revenged the death of Philopœmen, &c. Plutarch.
Lycosūra, a city built by Lycaon on mount Lycæus in Arcadia.
Lyctus, a town of Crete, the country of Idomeneus, whence he is often called Lyctius. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 401.
Lycurgrĭdes, annual days of solemnity, appointed in honour of the lawgiver of Sparta.——A patronymic of a son of Lycurgus. Ovid, Ibis, li. 503.