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Lycambes , ae, m., = Λυκάμβης,
I.a Theban who promised his daughter to Archilochus, and afterwards refused her; for which he was pursued by the poet with such bitter sarcasm that he hung both himself and his daughter: “qualis Lycambae spretus infido gener,” Hor. Epod. 6, 13; cf. id. Ep. 1, 19, 30. —Hence,
II. Lycambēus , a, um, adj., of Lycambes: “sanguis,” Ov. Ib. 54.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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