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Phaedrus

(Φαῖδρος).

1. An Athenian, the son of Pythocles, of the deme Myrrhinus (Plat. Phaedr. p. 244). He was a friend of Plato (D. L. 3.29), by whom he is introduced in the Phaedrus and the Convivium.It appears from these that he was a great admirer of Lysias and the other rhetoricians of his age. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 717.)