Lapersae

Or Lapersioi (Λαπέρσιοι), a surname of the Dioscuri, which they derived from the Attic demus of Lapersae,1 or, according to others, from a mountain in Laconia.2

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References

Notes

  1. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 511, 1369.
  2. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Λαπέρσα; Eustathius on Homer, pp. 230, 295.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.