He appears as a character in several of Plutarch's works, notably the "Table Talks"[1] He's also mentioned in Plutarch's Life of Antony as a friend of Philotas, one of Mark Antony's court physicians and a witness for some of the stories Plutarch relates about Antony and Cleopatra.
[2] Elsewhere Plutarch quotes him making ironic observations about Jewish dietary laws.
[3] According to Plutarch, Lamprias was a man of eloquence and imagination.
although he probably lived in Chaeronea of Boeotia, in Central Greece.
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