Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Aeschrion 1.

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870)
Various Authors, edited by William Smith

Aeschrion 1.

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1965334Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology — Aeschrion 1.1870Various Authors

AE′SCHRION, of Syracuse, whose wife Pippa was one of the mistresses of Verres, is frequently mentioned by Cicero in the Verrine Orations, (ii. 14, v. 12, 31.) He assisted Verres in robbing the Syracusans (ii. 21), and obtained the farming of the tithes of the Herbitenses for the purpose of plundering them. (iii. 33.)