Lynceus
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Stromata
Mythological king used as a chronological marker for dating Minos.
And Zaleucus the Locrian is recorded as the first to lay down laws, though some say it was Minos, the son of Zeus, in the time of Lynceus.
And Leon, who treated of the gods of Egypt, says that Isis is called Demeter by the Greeks, who comes in the time of Lynceus, in the eleventh generation later than Moses.
Under Lynceus were the rape of the maiden and the founding of the precinct at Eleusis, and the husbandry of Triptolemus, and the coming of Cadmus to Thebes, and the kingdom of Minos.
Chrestomathy
Co-owner of the stolen cattle, killed by Polydeuces.
Meanwhile Castor, together with Polydeuces, are caught stealing the cattle of Idas and Lynceus;
On Benefits
Mythological Argonaut famed for extraordinarily keen eyesight, used as a comparative example
3 As a man has all the senses, yet not for that reason have all men sight like Lynceus, so he who is a fool has not all his vices so keen and active as certain men have certain ones.