Lyso
a Sicilian of rank at Lilybaeum, whom Verres, while praetor of Sicily in B. C. 73-71, robbed of a statue of Apollo. (Cic. in Verr. 4.17.) A son of Lyso, bearing the same name, is recommended by Cicero to M'. Acilius Glabrio, proconsul in Sicily in B. C. 46. (ad Fam. 13.34.) [GLABRIO, No. 6.]
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