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

(Λαόδικος), a Hyperborean hero, who, together with Hyperochus and Pyrrhus, came to assist the Delphians against the Gauls. (Paus. 1.4.4, 10.23.3; comp. Hdt. 8.39.) It should, however, be remarked, that in Pausanias the common reading is Ἁμαδόκος or Λαοδόκος, where Müller writes Λαόδικος.

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