or LYCON, (anc. geogr.) so called from the worship of wolves. Lycopolites, the people; Lycopolites, the district. There were two towns of this name, one in the Delta, or Lower Egypt, near the Mediterranean; the other in the Thebais, or Higher Egypt, in the northern part, to the west of the Nile.

LYCOPHRON, a famous Greek poet and grammarian, born at Colchis in Euboea, flourished about 304 B.C. and, according to Ovid, was killed by an arrow. He wrote 20 tragedies; but all his works are lost, except a poem intitled Caffandra, which contains a long train of predictions, which he supposes to have been made by Caffandra, Priam's daughter. This poem is extremely obscure. The best edition of it is that of Dr Potter, printed at Oxford in 1697, folio.