Halcyon (dialogue)

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Halcyon (Greek: Ἀλκυών) is a short dialogue attributed in the manuscripts to both Plato and Lucian, but the work is not by either writer.^[1] Favorinus, writing in the early second century, attributes it to a certain Leon,^[2] as did Nicias of Nicaea. ^[3]