Leontiscus
Λεοντίσκος
(Λεοντίσκος), a son of Ptolemy Soter, by the celebrated Athenian courtezan, Thais. He was taken prisoner by Demetrius Poliorcetes in the great sea fight off Cyprus (B. C. 306), together with his uncle, Menelaus, but was immediately restored to his father without ransom. (Athen. 13.576; Just. 15.2.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.