Mithres

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Mithres the Syrian, was an attendant of Lysimachus, king of Thrace. He seems to have been a regular contributing patron of the Epicurean school. A work of Epicurus is named in his honor.

An anecdote preserved by Plutarch (Non posse 1097B & Adversus Colotem 1126F) relates an occasion in which Mithres came to be under arrest at the Piraeus. Epicurus praises Metrodorus for his heroic journey down to the coast to see about bailing him out, even though the aim of this 40 stadia walk (7.4 km or 4.6 mi) came to an unsuccessful conclusion. This and other "un-epic" deeds are contemptuously contrasted by Plutarch with the deeds of great generals and statesmen.