The third king, lysimachus of Thrace, was disposed of in 281, and Seleucus, dying a few months later, left to his dynastic successors an Asiatic empire of seventy-two provinces, very nearly equal to Alexander's, with important exceptions in Asia Minor.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
After we are done there we will go to the aid of lysimachus the senator; so, if you don't find us at the house of Gallus, you will find us there."
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty
The Syracusans heard him, and voted everything as he advised, and elected three generals, Hermocrates himself, Heraclides, son of lysimachus, and Sicanus, son of Execestes.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides
