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Lampon was a celebrated soothsayer at Athens in the time of Perikles. Aristophanes refers to him twice in his Birds, lines 521 and 988. He appears also in Plutarch, (Pericles 6), where he interprets the one-horned scull of a ram as a foreshadowing of Perikles’ ascendancy over his conservative rival, Thukydides, son of Melesias. According to Diodoros of Sicily 12.10.4, Lampon was one of two leaders sent by Perikles to found the Athenian colony of Thurii in 444 BCE.