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1. A son of Potamon of Mytilene, a philosopher and sophist, who lived in the time of
Augustus. He was a pupil of Timocrates, and the father of Polemon, who is known as the teacher
and friend of the emperor Tiberius. (Suidas, s. v.; Eudoc. p. 283.)
Suidas says that Lesbonax wrote several philosophical works, but does not mention that he
was an orator or rhetorician, although there can be no doubt that he is the same person as
the Lesbonax who wrote ad Luc. de
Saltat. 69), and the one of whom, in the time of Photius (Bibl.
Cod. 74, p. 52), there were extant sixteen political orations.
Of these orations only two have come down to us, one entitled