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                    "description": "Lycurgus | Ly-curgīdes, ae | Lycŏorgīdes, ae | Lycur-gēi, ōrum (noun M.m.m.m) : Λυκοῦργος.\n* Son of Dryas, king of the Edones, who prohibited the worship of Bacchus to his subjects, and ordered all the vines to be destroyed, Ov. M. 4, 22; Prop. 4, 16, 23; Stat. Th. 4, 386; Hor. C. 2, 19, 16; Hyg. Fab. 132; 242.\n* Son of Pheres, a king of Nemea, Stat. Th. 5, 39.\n* Son of Aleus and Neaera, and father of Ancaeus, a king of Arcadia; hence, , , , a male descendant of Lycurgus, i. e. Ancaeus, Ov. Ib. 503; and: , , , the same, Prisc. 584 P.\n* The famous lawgiver of the Spartans, Cic. Div. 1, 43, 96; id. Rep. 2, 1; 2, 9, 5 sq.; id. Off. 1, 22, 76; Vell. 1, 6, 3 et saep.\n* An Athenian orator, the contemporary and friend of Demosthenes, famed for his incorruptible integrity, Cic. Brut. 34, 130; id. de Or. 2, 23, 94.—Transf., for a severe magistrate: Lycurgos invenisse se praedicabat et Cassios, columina justitiae prisca,Amm. 30, 8, 13.—Hence, , , , = Λυκούργειοι, disciples of Lycurgus, inflexibly severe: nosmetipsi, qui Lycurgei a principio fuissemus, cotidie demitigamur,Cic. Att. 1, 13, 3."
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