Lycambes

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Lycambes, 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 Lycambēus , a, um, adj., of Lycambes : sanguis, Ov. Ib. 54.