6. An historian, the son of Hipparchus, and a Spartan, wrote a work on Lacedaemonian affairs (Λακωνικά), of which Athenaeus (iii. p. 82e.) quotes the fourth book, and which is also referred to by Plutarch (Plut. Lyc. 4, 31, Philop. 16), and other writers. (Steph. s. v. Ἀβάντις; Schol. ad Soph. Trach. 270.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890