Lamis of Megara

One of the Greek colonists of Sicily

Sources

• Thucydides
• Polyaenus Stratagems

About the same time Lamis arrived in Sicily with a colony from Megara, and after founding a place called Trotilus beyond the river Pantacyas, and afterwards leaving it and for a short while joining the Chalcidians at Leontini, was driven out by them and founded Thapsus. After his death his companions were driven out of Thapsus, and founded a place called the Hyblaean Megara; Thucydides Book 6

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