Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Eratosthenes 1.

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4722993Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology — Eratosthenes (tyrant)1870William Smith (1813-1893)

ERATOSTHENES (Ἐρατοσθένης). 1. One of the Thirty Tyrants. (Xen. Hell. ii. 3. § 2.) There is an oration of Lysias against him (Or. 12), which was delivered soon after the expulsion of the Thirty and the return of Lysias from exile. (Clinton, F. H. sub ann. B.C. 403.) 2. The person for whose slaughter by Euphiletus, the first oration of Lysias is a defence. (Lys. p. 2, &c.)[P. S.]