Leucon
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
ruler of the Bosporus · this prince
in the texts
Against Leptines
Ruler of the Bosporus who received Athenian immunity and gave Athens corn-trade benefits.
See what this amounts to.
If, then, Leucon replies to this, Yes;
Take and read them the decrees touching Leucon.
Orations
Ruler cited as an example of a just king granted long life.
"But the brave and humane man, well-disposed to his subjects, honoring virtue and striving lest he be thought inferior in any of the good things, compelling the unjust to repent and aiding the weak—him God, admiring his virtue, for the most part brings on to old age, as we hear of Cyrus and of Deioces the Mede and Idanthyrsus the Scythian and Leucon, and of many of the Laconian kings, and of some …