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Corinnus (Korinnos), was, according to Suidas (s. v.), an epic poet, a native of Ilium, who lived before Homer, in the time of the Trojan war, and wrote an Iliad, from which Homer borrowed the argument of his poem. He also, according to the same authority, sang the war of Dardanus with the Paphlagonians. He is likewise said to have been a pupil of Palamedes, and to have written in the Doric characters invented by the latter. (Suidas, s. v. ; Eudocia)
Lycon, of Troas, a distinguished Peripatetic philosopher, who was the son of Astyanax, and
the disciple of Straton, whom he succeeded as the head of the Peripatetic school,
in the 127th Olympiad, B. C. 272; and he held that post for more than forty-four
years. He resided at Pergamus, under the patronage of Attalus and Eumenes, from
whom Antigonus Gonatas of Macedonia in vain sought to entice him (the old reading
in the text of Laertius was Antiochus). On several occasions his counsel was of
great service to the Athenians. He was celebrated for his eloquence (comp. Cic.
de Fin. v. 5), and for his skill in educating boys. He paid great attention to
the body as well as to the mind, and, constantly practising athletic exercises,
wants exceedingly healthy and robust. Nevertheles, lie died of gout at the age
of 74. He was a bitter rival of Hieronymus the peripatetic.
Among the writings of Lycon was probably a work on Characters (similar
to the work of Theophrastus), a fragment of which is preserved by Rutilius Lupus
(de Fig. ii. 7), though the title of the book is not mentioned by any ancient
writer. It appears from Cicero (Tusc. Disp. iii. 32) and Clement of Alexandria
(Strom. ii.), that he wrote on the boundaries of good and evil (De Finibus). A
work of his on the nature of animals is quoted by Appuleius (Apol.). In his will,
as preserved by Diogenes Laertius, there is a reference to his writings, but no
mention of their titles.
Diogenes states, that on account of his sweet eloquence, his name
was often written Glukon. The fact appears to be that the guttural was originally
a part of the word. (Diog. Laert. v. 65-74 ; Ruhnken, ad Rutil. Lup. l. c., Opusc.
vol. i. p. 393; Jonsius, Script. Hist. Philos. vol. iv. p. 340; Fabric. Bibl.
Graec. vol. i. p. 851, ol. iii. p. 498.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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