LESBONAX  , of Mytilene,

Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the time of Augustus . According to Photius (cod . 74) 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 (the title of which is misleading) against the Thebans (edition by F . Kiehr, Lesbonactis quae supersunt, Leipzig, 1907) . Some erotic letters are also attributed to him . The Lesbonax described in Suidas as the author of a large number of philosophical works is probably of much earlier date; on the other hand, the author of a small treatise Heal xnµa.7wv on grammatical figures (ed . Rudolf Muller, Leipzig, 1900), is probably later .