Leagrus
(
*Le/agros), son of Glaucon, in conjunction with Sophanes the athlete, of Deceleia, commanded the Athenians who fell in the first attempt to colonise Amphipolis, B. C. 465, at Drabescus or Datus (
Hdt. 9.75;
Paus. 1.29.4; comp.
Thuc. 1.100). His son, a second Glaucon, commanded, with the orator Andocides, the reinforcements sent to the aid of the Corcyraeans, B. C. 432; and his grandson, another Leagrus, is ridiculed in a passage of the comic poet Plato (apud
Athen. ii. p. 68c.), as a highborn fool.
οὐχ ὁρᾶς ὅτι
ὁ μὲν Λέαγρος Γλαύκωνος μεγάλου γένους
κόκκυξ ἠλίθιος περιέρχεται.
A sister of his was married to Callias III., son of Hipponicus (Andoc.
Myst. p. 126, Bekk.), so that the genealogy stands thus,
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