Lace'das
(
*Lakh/das), or, as Herodotus (
6.127) calls him, Leocedes, a king of Argos, and father of Melas, is reckoned to have been a descendant of Medon in the fifth generation. (
Paus. 2.19.2.) Another person of the same name is Lacedas, the son of Pheidon. Some writers not only identify the two, but try to prove that the Lacydas mentioned by Plutarch (
De Cap. ex inim. util. 89.) is likewise the same person. (Comp. Wyttenbach,
ad Plut. l.c. ; Schubart and Walz
ad Paus. l.c.)
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