LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
proper noun

Lўcambes

Meaning

  1. a Theban who promised his daughter to Archilochus, and afterwards refused her; for which he was pursued by the poet with such bitter sarcasm that he hung both himself and his daughter

Lўcambes, ae, m., = Λυκάμβης,
I. a Theban who promised his daughter to Archilochus, and afterwards refused her; for which he was pursued by the poet with such bitter sarcasm that he hung both himself and his daughter: qualis Lycambae spretus infido gener, Hor. Epod. 6, 13; cf. id. Ep. 1, 19, 30. —Hence,
II. Lўcambēus, a, um, adj., of Lycambes: sanguis, Ov. Ib. 54.

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What does Lўcambes mean in Latin?
Lўcambes, a proper noun, means “a Theban who promised his daughter to Archilochus, and afterwards refused her; for which he was pursued by the poet with such bitter sarcasm that he hung both himself and his daughter”.