Lesbonax

(Λεσβῶναξ).

1. A son of Potamon of Mytilene, a philosopher and sophist, who lived in the time of Augustus. He was a pupil of Timocrates, and the father of Polemon, who is known as the teacher and friend of the emperor Tiberius. (Suidas, s. v.; Eudoc. p. 283.) Works

Suidas says that Lesbonax wrote several philosophical works, but does not mention that he was an orator or rhetorician, although there can be no doubt that he is the same person as the Lesbonax who wrote μελεταὶ ῥητομικαὶ and ἐρωτικαὶ επιστολαὶ (Schol. ad Luc. de Saltat. 69), and the one of whom, in the time of Photius (Bibl. Cod. 74, p. 52), there were extant sixteen political orations. Extand Orations

Of these orations only two have come down to us, one entitled περὶ τοῦ πολέμου Κορινθίων, and the other προτρεπτικὸς λόγος, both of which are not unsuccessful imitations of the Attic orators of the best times. Editions

They are printed in the collections of the Greek orators published by Aldus, H. Stephens, Reiske, Bekker, and Dobson

A separate edition was published by J. C. Orelli, Lipsiae, 1820, 8vo.

2. A Greek grammarian, whose age is unknown, but who must at any rate be assigned to a much later period than the rhetorician Lesbonax. Works On Grammatical Figures (περὶ σχημάτων)

He is the author of a little work on grammatical figures (περὶ σχημάτων).

This little treatise is not without some importance, since it contains things which are not mentioned anywhere else. Editions

This was first published by Valckenaer in his edition of Ammonius (p. 177, or in the Leipz. edit. p. 165, &c.; comp. p. xviii. &c.) [L.S]

(Λεσβῶναξ). (1) A Greek rhetorician who lived early in the first century of our era. He composed political declamations on imaginary topics. Two of these have come down to us, exhorting the Athenians in the Peloponnesian War to be bold in battle against the Thebans and the Spartans. They have been separately edited by Orelli (Leipzig, 1820).

(2) A Greek grammarian of uncertain date, though later than the preceding. There exists a work of his on figures of grammar (Περὶ Σχημάτων). See R. Müller, De Lesbonacte Grammatico (1890).