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M. Lamponius, a Lucanian, was one of the principal captains of the Italians in the war of the allies with Rome, B. C. 90--88. He commanded in his native province at the breaking out of the war, since he drove P. Licinius Crassus, with great loss into Grumentum. (Front. Strat. ii. 4, 16.) In the last war with Sulla, B. C. 83--2, when the Samnites and Lucanians had become the allies of the Marian party at Rome, Lamponius was the companion of Pontius of Telesia in his march upon the capital. After victory finally declared for Sulla at the Colline gate, Lamponius disappeared with the herd of fugitives. (Appian, B. C. i. 40, 41, 90, 93; Plut. Sull. 29; Flor. iii. 21; Eutrop. v. 8.) Aponios in Diodorus (xxxvii. Eclog. i.) is a misreading for Lamponius.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Aesara (Aisara), of Lucania, a female Pythagorean philosopher, said to be a daughter of Pythagoras, wrote a work "about Human Nature," of which a fragment is preserved by Stobaens. (Ecl. i. p. 847, ed. Heeren.) Some editors attribute this fragment to Aresas, one of the successors of Pythagoras, but Bentley prefers reading Aesara.
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