Lewis & Short

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Lycambes, ae, m., = Λυκάμβης,

  1. 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,
  2. II. Lycambēus, a, um, adj., of Lycambes: sanguis, Ov. Ib. 54.