Lesbonax

Lesbonax of Mytilene, a Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the time of Roman emperor Augustus. According to Photius I of Constantinople he was the author of sixteen political speeches, of which two are extant, a hortatory speech after the style of Thucydides, and a speech on the Corinthian War. In the first he exhorts the Athenians against the Spartans, in the second against the Thebans. Some erotic letters are also attributed to him. His son Potamo was also a notable rhetorician.