Lysippus

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

Lȳsippus, i, m., = Λύσιππος,

a celebrated brass-founder of Sicyon, to whom alone Alexander the Great gave permission to cast a statue of him , Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 7; id. Brut. 86, 296; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 240; Plin. 7, 37, 38, § 125; 34, 7, 17, § 37; Quint. 12, 10, 9.