Ly̆sias

, a celebrated orator, son of Cephalus, a native of Syracuse. His father left Sicily and went to Athens, where Lysias was born and carefully educated. In his 15th year he accompanied the colony which the A then i ans sent to Thurium, and after a long residence there he returned home in his 47th year. He distinguished himself by his eloquence, and by the simplicity, correctne , and purity of his orations, of which he wrote no le than 425 according to Plutarch, though the number may with more probability be reduced to 230. Of these 34 are extant, the best editions of which are that of Taylor, 8vo, Cambridge. 1740, and that of Auger, 2  vols. , 8vo, Paris, 1783. He died in the 81st year of his age, 378 years before the christian era. Plutarch , Lives of the Ten Orators .— Cicero , Brutus ; On Oratory .— Quintilian , bk. 3 , . — Diogenes Laërtius , bk. 2 .――An A then i an general, . ――A town of Phrygia. Strabo. ――Another of Syria, now Berziech , near Emesa.――A tyrant of Tarsus, B.C. 267.