Lysimachus

[ lahy-sim-uh-kuhs ]

noun

1. 361?–281 b.c., Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.

Lysimachus

/ laɪˈsɪməkəs /

noun

1. Lysimachus?360 bc281 bcMMacedonianMILITARY: general ?360–281 bc , Macedonian general under Alexander the Great; king of Thrace (323–281); killed in battle by Seleucus I

Example Sentences

In course of time admission to the rank of a hero became far more common, and was even accorded to the living, such as Lysimachus in Samothrace and the tyrant Nicias of Cos.

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He soon, however, roused the jealousy of the successors of Alexander; and Seleucus, Cassander and Lysimachus united to destroy Antigonus and his son.

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The most marvellous story is that of Lysimachus of Alexandria, who brings down the exodus of the Jews to the eighth century B.C.

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One dog called Hyrcanus, belonging to King Lysimachus, one of the successors of Alexander the Great, jumped on to the funeral pyre on which lay burning the dead body of his master.

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I heard recently that Alexander Lysimachus, Alabarch of Alexandria, was in Jerusalem, presenting a Gate to the Temple, and sending my wife and children to Ptolemais, I hastened hither to get a loan of him.

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