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Neoptolemus,Neoptolemus composed a glossary, or dictionary, divided into several books. surnamed the Glossographer, a writer of repute, was of Parium. Charon,Charon was the author of a History of the Persian War, and of the Annals of Lampsacus. the Historian, was of Lampsacus. Adeimantes,Adeimantes was probably one of the courtiers of Demetrius Poliorcetes. Anaximenes,Anaximenes was the author of a History of Early Times, and of a work entitled, The Death of Kings. The Rhetoric addressed to Alexander, now known as The Rhetoric of Aristotle, has been ascribed to him. For the above see Athaenaeus. the Rhetorician, and Metrodorus, the friend of Epicurus, even Epicurus himself might be said to be a Lampsacenian, having lived a long time at Lampsacus, and enjoyed the friendship of Idomeneus and Leontes, the most distinguished of its citizens.
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It was from Lampsacus that Agrippa transported the Prostrate Lion, the workmanship of Lysippus, and placed it in the sacred grove between the lakeCalled Stagnum Agrippe in Tacit. Ann. b. xv. c. 37. and the strait.
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Next to Lampsacus is Abydos, and the intervening places, of which the poet speaks in such a manner as to comprehend both Lampsacene and some parts of Pariane, for, in the Trojan times, the above cities were not yet in existence: those who inhabited Percote, Practius, Sestos, Abydos, and the famed Arisbe, were led by Asius, the son of Hyrtacus,Il. ii. 835. who, he says, came from Arisbe, from the river Selleïs in a chariot drawn by large and furious coursers; implying by these words that Arisbe was the royal seat of Asius, whence, he says, he came, drawn by coursers from the river Selleis. But these places are so little known, that writers do not agree among themselves about their situation, except that they are near Abydos, Lampsacus, and Parium, and that the name of the last place was changed from Percope to Percote.
