Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), L, Leontium, Leucon

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Leucon

（Λεύκων).

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The son of Poseidon or Athamas and Themisto, and father of Erythrus and Evippé.

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A powerful king of Bosporus, who reigned B.C. 393-353. He was in close alliance with the Athenians, whom he supplied with corn in great abundance, and who, in return for his services, admitted him and his sons to the citizenship of Athens (Diod.xiv. 93).

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An Athenian poet of the old comedy, a contemporary and rival of Aristophanes (Suidas, s. v.).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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