Theron
THEER-on
Recorded in this scroll aloneOne of the mercenary captains under Alcibiades, and the one who does the laughing.
He is the voice that puts the arrangement plainly: that the barbarians have been hoarding wealth for generations, and that there will be plenty of gold to go around.
Theron is a known Greek name, borne among others by a tyrant of Acragas. This man is named only here.
Sources
This term is carried by PHerc. 1667 alone. No other surviving source records it.
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