person
Lycambes
also: Lycambae
The man who broke his pledge to give his daughter to the iambic poet Archilochus, whose lampoons then drove him to suicide.
Reading notes
- The Epistles §1.19 Lycambes
The man who broke his pledge to give his daughter to the iambic poet Archilochus, whose lampoons then drove him to suicide.
- The Epodes §6 Lycambes
The man who broke his promise of his daughter to the iambic poet Archilochus, whose verses then hounded him to suicide.