Euryleon

Eury'leon

(Εὐρυλέων), is said to have been the original name of Ascanius. (Dionys. A. R. 1.70: Appian, de Reg. Rom i.) [L.S]

Eury'leon

(Εὐρυλέων.)

1. One of the companions of Dorieus, with whom he went out to establish a colony, Heracleia in Sicily. Nearly all the Spartan colonists, however, were slain by the Carthaginians and Egestaeans. Euryleon was the only one of the leaders who escaped: he gathered the remnants of the Lacedaemonians and took possession of Minoa, a colony of Selinus, and assisted the Selinuntians in getting rid of their tyrant Peithagoras. (Hdt. 5.46; comp. Dorieus.)

Eury'leon

2. A commander of the Lacedaemonians in their first war against the Messenians. He was of Theban extraction, and a descendant of Cadmus. (Paus. 4.7.3.) [L.S]

Euryleon Euryleon, a Lacedaemonian general

• Paus. 4.7.8, Paus. 4.8.11

Euryleon(2), a Spartan colonist in Sicily

• Hdt. 5.46