Pausanias' Description of Greece

Leonymus

Role: general · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 19

Life events

  • Leonymus attacks Ajax’s forces and is wounded in the breast.(Book 3 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Italy)
    • With: Ajax the son of Oileus
    • “Leonymus the general of the Crotonians attacked that part of the enemy’s army where he was told that Ajax was stationed, and got wounded in the breast”
  • Leonymus is healed on Leuce after the Pythian Priestess sends him there to meet Ajax.(Book 3 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Leuce)
    • With: Ajax the son of Oileus
    • “And the Pythian Priestess sent him to the island Leuce, and told him that Ajax would appear there and heal his wound. And in process of time getting well he returned from Leuce”

Book 3 · Chapter 19

  • enemies with Ajax the son of Oileus “when there was a war between the people of Croton and the Locrians in Italy, and the Locrians invited in Ajax the son of Oileus to aid them because of their kinsmanship to the Opuntians, Leonymus the general of the Crotonians attacked that part of the enemy’s army where he was told that Ajax was stationed, and got wounded in the breast”

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