Potamo of Mytilene
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Potamo of Mytilene
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Potamo or Potamon) of Mytilene in Lesbos, son of Lesbonax the rhetorician, was himself a rhetorician in the time of the Roman emperor Tiberius, whose favour he enjoyed. He is mentioned by Plutarch as an authority regarding Alexander the Great. It is probably he whom Lucian states to have attained the age of ninety. When his son was killed, according to Seneca the Elder, he delivered a speech on the suasoria relating to the Spartans deliberating whether to flee Thermopylae wherein he exhorted the
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