A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

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1. Dynast of Larissa in Thessaly, who was engaged in a war with Lycophron, tyrant of Pherae, in the year B. C. 395. In this he was assisted by the Boeotians, who had just concluded an alliance with the Argives, Corinthians, and Athenians, against the power of Sparta, and with their assistance he took the city of Pharsalus (Diod. 14.82). These events are omitted by Xenophon.