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Lysiades

2. An Epicurean philosopher of Athens, the son of the celebrated philosopher Phaedrus, was contemporary with Cicero, who speaks of him as " homo festivus," and attacks his appointment by Antony as a judge. (Philipp. 5.5, 8.9.)

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.