Leosthĕnes

, an A then i an general, who, after Alexander’s death, drove Anti pater to The aly, where he besieged him in the town of Lamia. The succe which for a while attended his arms was soon changed by a fatal blow, which he received from a stone thrown by the besieged, B.C. 323. The death of Leosthenes was followed by the total defeat of the A then i an forces. The funeral oration over his body was pronounced at Athens by Hype rides, in the absence of Demosthenes, who had been lately banished for taking a bribe from Harpalus. See: Lamiacum . Diodorus , bks. 17 & 18.— Strabo , bk. 9 .――Another general of Athens, condemned on account of the bad succe which attended his arms against Peparethos.