Proclidæ. He was set over the Grecian fleet, and, by his courage
and valour, he put an end to the Persian war at the famous battle of
Mycale. It is said that he cheered the spirits of his fellow-soldiers
at Mycale, who were anxious for their countrymen in Greece, by
raising a report that a battle had been fought at Platæa, in which
the barbarians had been defeated. This succeeded, and though the
information was premature, yet a battle was fought at Platæa, in
which the Greeks obtained the victory the same day that the Persian
fleet was destroyed at Mycale. Leotychides was accused of a capital
crime by the Ephori, and, to avoid the punishment which his guilt
seemed to deserve, he fled to the temple of Minerva at Tegea, where
he perished, B.C. 469, after a reign of 22 years. He was succeeded by
his grandson Archidamus. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, chs. 7 & 8.――_Diodorus_,
bk. 11.――――A son of Agis king of Sparta by Timæa. The legitimacy of
his birth was disputed by some, and it was generally believed that
he was the son of Alcibiades. He was prevented from ascending the
throne of Sparta by Lysander, though Agis had declared him upon his
death-bed his lawful son and heir, and Agesilaus was appointed in
his place. _Cornelius Nepos_, _Agesilaus_.――_Plutarch._――_Pausanias_,
bk. 3, ch. 8.
=Lephyrium=, a city of Cilicia.
=Lepĭda=, a noble woman, accused of attempts to poison her husband,
from whom she had been separated for 20 years. She was condemned
under Tiberius. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 3, ch. 22.――――A woman who
married Scipio.――――Domitia, a daughter of Drusus and Antonia, great
niece to Augustus, and aunt to the emperor Nero. She is described by
Tacitus as a common prostitute, infamous in her manners, violent in
her temper, and yet celebrated for her beauty. She was put to death
by means of her rival Agrippina, Nero’s mother. _Tacitus._――――A wife
of Galba the emperor.――――A wife of Cassius, &c.
=Lepĭdus Marcus Æmĭlius=, a Roman, celebrated as being one of the
triumvirs with Augustus and Antony. He was of an illustrious family,
and, like the rest of his contemporaries, he was remarkable for
his ambition, to which were added a narrowness of mind, and a
great deficiency of military abilities. He was sent against Cæsar’s
murderers, and some time after, he leagued with Marcus Antony, who
had gained the heart of his soldiers by artifice, and that of their
commander by his address. When his influence and power among the
soldiers had made him one of the triumvirs, he showed his cruelty,
like his colleagues, by his proscriptions, and even suffered his
own brother to be sacrificed to the dagger of the triumvirate. He
received Africa as his portion in the division of the empire; but his
indolence soon rendered him despicable in the eyes of his soldiers
and of his colleagues; and Augustus, who was well acquainted with the
unpopularity of Lepidus, went to his camp and obliged him to resign
the power to which he was entitled as being a triumvir. After this
degrading event, he sunk into obscurity, and retired, by order of
Augustus, to Cerceii, a small town on the coast of Latium, where he
ended his days in peace, B.C. 13, and where he was forgotten as soon
as out of power. _Appian._――_Plutarch_, _Life of Augustus_.――_Florus_,
bk. 4, chs. 6 & 7.――――A Roman consul, sent to be the guardian of
young Ptolemy Epiphanes, whom his father had left to the care of
the Roman people. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 2, ch. 67.――_Justin_, bk.
30, ch. 3.――――A son of Julia the granddaughter of Augustus. He was
intended by Caius as his successor in the Roman empire. He committed
adultery with Agrippina when young. _Dio Cassius_, bk. 59.――――An
orator mentioned by _Cicero_, _Brutus_.――――A censor, A.U.C. 734.
=Lepīnus=, a mountain of Italy. _Columella_, bk. 10.
=Lepontii=, a people at the source of the Rhine. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 20.
=Lepreos=, a son of Pyrgeus, who built a town in Elis, which he called
after his own name. He laid a wager that he would eat as much as
Hercules; upon which he killed an ox and ate it up. He afterwards
challenged Hercules to a trial of strength, and was killed.
_Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 5.
=Leprium=, or =Lepreos=, a town of Elis. _Cicero_, bk. 6, _Letters to
Atticus_, ltr. 2.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 5.
=Leptĭnes=, a general of Demetrius, who ordered Cnæus Octavius, one of
the Roman ambassadors, to be put to death.――――A son of Hermocrates
of Syracuse, brother to Dionysius. He was sent by his brother against
the Carthaginians, and experienced so much success, that he sunk 50
of their ships. He was afterwards defeated by Mago, and banished by
Dionysius. He always continued a faithful friend to the interests
of his brother, though naturally an avowed enemy to tyranny and
oppression. He was killed in a battle with the Carthaginians.
_Diodorus_, bk. 15.――――A famous orator at Athens, who endeavoured
to set the people free from oppressive taxes. He was opposed by
Demosthenes.――――A tyrant of Appollonia in Sicily, who surrendered to
Timoleon. _Diodorus_, bk. 16.
=Leptis=, the name of two cities of Africa, one of which, called
_Major_, now _Lebida_, was near the Syrtes, and had been built by a
Tyrian or Sidonian colony. The other, called _Minor_, now _Lemta_,
was about 18 Roman miles from Adrumentum. It paid every day a talent
to the republic of Carthage, by way of tribute. _Lucan_, bk. 2, li.
251.――_Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 19.――_Sallust_, _Jugurthine War_, ch. 77.
――_Mela_, bk. 1, ch. 8.――_Strabo_, bk. 3, li. 256.――_Cæsar_. _Civil
Wars_, bk. 2, ch. 38.――_Cicero_, bk. 5, _Against Verres_, ch. 59.
=Leria=, an island in the Ægean sea, on the coast of Caria, about 18
miles in circumference, peopled by a Milesian colony. Its inhabitants
were very dishonest. _Strabo_, bk. 10.――_Herodotus_, bk. 5, ch. 125.
=Lerĭna=, or =Planasia=, a small island in the Mediterranean, on the
coast of Gaul, at the east of the Rhone. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 1,
ch. 3.
=Lerna=, a country of Argolis, celebrated for a grove and a lake,
where, according to the poets, the Danaides threw the heads of their
murdered husbands. It was there also that Hercules killed the famous
hydra. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 803; bk. 12, li. 517.――_Strabo_,
bk. 8.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 3.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 1,
li. 597.――_Lucretius_, bk. 5.――_Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 4, li. 638.
――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 15.――――There was a festival, called
_Lernæa_, celebrated there in honour of Bacchus, Proserpine, and
Ceres. The Argives used to carry fire to this solemnity from a temple
upon mount Crathis, dedicated to Diana. _Pausanias._
=Lero=, a small island on the coast of Gaul, called also Lerina.
=Leros.= _See:_ Leria.
=Lesbos=, a large island in the Ægean sea, now known by the name of
_Metelin_, 168 miles in circumference. It has been severally called
_Ægira_, _Lasia_, _Æthiope_, and _Pelasgia_, from the Pelasgi, by
whom it was first peopled, _Macaria_, from Macareus who settled in it,
and _Lesbos_, from the son-in-law and successor of Macareus, who bore
the same name. The chief towns of Lesbos were Methymna and Mitylene.
Lesbos was originally governed by kings, but they were afterwards
subjected to the neighbouring powers. The wine which it produced was
greatly esteemed by the ancients, and still is in the same repute
among the moderns. The Lesbians were celebrated among the ancients
for their skill in music, and their women for their beauty; but the
general character of the people was so debauched and dissipated,
that the epithet of _Lesbian_ was often used to signify debauchery
and extravagance. Lesbos has given birth to many illustrious
persons, such as Arion, Terpander, &c. The best verses were by way
of eminence often called _Lesboum carmen_, from Alcæus and Sappho,
who distinguished themselves for their poetical compositions, and
were also natives of the place. _Diodorus_, bk. 5.――_Strabo_, bk. 13.
――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 2, li. 90.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ltr. 11.
――_Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 160.
=Lesbus=, or =Lesbos=, a son of Lapithas, grandson of Æolus, who
married Methymna daughter of Macareus. He succeeded his father-in-law,
and gave his name to the island over which he reigned.
=Lesches=, a Greek poet of Lesbos, who flourished B.C. 600. Some
suppose him to be the author of the little Iliad, of which only few
verses remain, quoted by _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 25.
=Lestrȳgŏnes.= _See:_ Læstrygones.
=Letānum=, a town of Propontis, built by the Athenians.
=Lethæus=, a river of Lydia, flowing by Magnesia into the Mæander.
_Strabo_, bk. 10, &c.――――Another of Macedonia,――――of Crete.
=Lēthe=, one of the rivers of hell, whose waters the souls of the dead
drank after they had been confined for a certain space of time in
Tartarus. It had the power of making them forget whatever they had
done, seen, or heard before, as the name implies, ληθη, _oblivion_.
――――Lethe is a river of Africa, near the Syrtes, which runs under
the ground, and some time after rises again, whence the origin of the
fable of the Lethean streams of oblivion.――――There is also a river of
that name in Spain.――――Another in Bœotia, whose waters were drunk by
those who consulted the oracle of Trophonius. _Lucan_, bk. 9, li. 355.
――_Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 4, poem 1, li. 47.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_,
bk. 4, li. 545; _Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 714.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 1,
li. 235; bk. 10, li. 555.――_Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 39.――_Horace_,
bk. 4, ode 7, li. 27.
=Letus=, a mountain of Liguria. _Livy_, bk. 41, ch. 18.
=Levāna=, a goddess of Rome, who presided over the action of the person
who took up from the ground a newly born child, after it had been
placed there by the midwife. This was generally done by the father,
and so religiously observed was this ceremony, that the legitimacy of
a child could be disputed without it.
=Leuca=, a town of the Salentines, near a cape of the same name in
Italy. _Lucan_, bk. 5, li. 376.――――A town of Ionia,――――of Crete,
――――of Argolis. _Strabo_, bk. 6, &c.
=Leucas=, or =Leucadia=, an island of the Ionian sea, now called
_St. Maura_, near the coast of Epirus, famous for a promontory called
_Leucate_, _Leucas_, or _Leucates_, where desponding lovers threw
themselves into the sea. Sappho had recourse to this leap to free
herself from the violent passion which she entertained for Phaon. The
word is derived from λευκος, _white_, on account of the whiteness of
its rocks. Apollo had a temple on the promontory, whence he is often
called _Leucadius_. The island was formerly joined to the continent
by a narrow isthmus, which the inhabitants dug through after the
Peloponnesian war. _Ovid_, _Heroides_, poem 15, li. 171.――_Strabo_,
bk. 6, &c.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 15, li. 302.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 3, li. 274; bk. 8, li. 677.――――A town of Phœnicia.
=Leucasion=, a village of Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 25.
=Leucaspis=, a Lycian, one of the companions of Æneas, drowned in the
Tyrrhene sea. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 334.
=Leucate.= _See:_ Leucas.
=Leuce=, a small island in the Euxine sea, of a triangular form,
between the mouths of the Danube and the Borysthenes. According to
the poets, the souls of the ancient heroes were placed there as in
the Elysian fields, where they enjoyed perpetual felicity, and reaped
the repose to which their benevolence to mankind, and their exploits
during life, seemed to entitle them. From that circumstance it has
often been called the island of the blessed, &c. According to some
accounts Achilles celebrated there his nuptials with Iphigenia, or
rather Helen, and shared the pleasures of the place with the manes
of Ajax, &c. _Strabo_, bk. 2.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――_Ammianus_,
bk. 22.――_Quintus Calaber [Smyrnæus]_, bk. 2, li. 773.――――One of the
Oceanides whom Pluto carried into his kingdom.
=Leuci=, a people of Gaul, between the Moselle and the Maese. Their
capital is now called _Toul_. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 1, ch. 40.
――――Mountains on the west of Crete, appearing at a distance like
_white_ clouds, whence the name.
=Leucippe=, one of the Oceanides.
=Leucippĭdes=, the daughters of Leucippus. _See:_ Leucippus.
=Leucippus=, a celebrated philosopher of Abdera, about 428 years before
Christ, disciple to Zeno. He was the first who invented the famous
system of atoms and of a vacuum, which was afterwards more fully
explained by Democritus and Epicurus. Many of his hypotheses have
been adopted by the moderns, with advantage. _Diogenes Laërtius_
has written his life.――――A brother of Tyndarus king of Sparta, who
married Philodice daughter of Inachus, by whom he had two daughters,
Hilaira and Phœbe, known by the patronymic of Leucippides. They were
carried away by their cousins Castor and Pollux, as they were going
to celebrate their nuptials with Lynceus and Idas. _Ovid_, _Fasti_,
bk. 4, li. 701.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 10, &c.――_Pausanias_,
bk. 3, chs. 17 & 26.――――A son of Xanthus, descended from Bellerophon.
He became deeply enamoured of one of his sisters, and when he was
unable to restrain his unnatural passion, he resolved to gratify it.
He acquainted his mother with it, and threatened to murder himself
if she attempted to oppose his views or remove the object of his
affection. The mother, rather than lose a son whom she tenderly
loved, cherished his passion, and by her consent her daughter yielded
herself to the arms of her brother. Some time after the father
resolved to give his daughter in marriage to a Lycian prince. The
future husband was informed that the daughter of Xanthus secretly
entertained a lover, and he communicated the intelligence to the
father. Xanthus upon this secretly watched his daughter, and when
Leucippus had introduced himself to her bed, the father, in his
eagerness to discover the seducer, occasioned a little noise in
the room. The daughter was alarmed, and as she attempted to escape
she received a mortal wound from her father, who took her to be
the lover. Leucippus came to her assistance, and stabbed his father
in the dark, without knowing who he was. This accidental parricide
obliged Leucippus to fly from his country. He came to Crete, where
the inhabitants refused to give him an asylum, when acquainted with
the atrociousness of his crime, and he at last came to Ephesus, where
he died in the greatest misery and remorse. _Hermesianax referenced
by Parthenius_, ch. 5.――――A son of Œnomaus, who became enamoured of
Daphne, and to obtain her confidence disguised himself in a female
dress, and attended his mistress as a companion. He gained the
affections of Daphne by his obsequiousness and attention, but his
artifice at last proved fatal through the influence and jealousy of
his rival Apollo; for when Daphne and her attendants were bathing
in the Ladon, the sex of Leucippus was discovered, and he perished
by the darts of the females. _Parthenius_, _Narrationes Amatoriæ_,
ch. 15.――_Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 20.――――A son of Hercules by Marse,
one of the daughters of Thespius. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 7.
=Leucŏla=, a part of Cyprus.
=Leucon=, a tyrant of Bosphorus, who lived in great intimacy with
the Athenians. He was a firm patron of the useful arts, and greatly
encouraged commerce. _Strabo._――_Dio Cassius_, bk. 14.――――A son of
Athamas and Themisto. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 22.――――A king of Pontus
killed by his brother, whose bed he had defiled. _Ovid_, _Ibis_,
li. 3.――――A town of Africa near Cyrene. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 160.
=Leucōne=, a daughter of Aphidas, who gave her name to a fountain of
Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 44.
=Leucōnes=, a son of Hercules. _Apollodorus._
=Leuconoe=, a daughter of Lycambes. The Leuconoe to whom Horace
addressed his bk. 1, ode 11, seems to be a fictitious name.
=Leucopĕtra=, a place on the isthmus of Corinth, where the Achæans were
defeated by the consul Mummius.――――A promontory six miles east from
Rhegium in Italy, where the Apennines terminate and sink into the sea.
=Leucŏphrys=, a temple of Diana, with a city of the same name, near the
Mæander. The goddess was represented under the figure of a woman with
many breasts, and crowned with victory.――――An ancient name of Tenedos.
_Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 14.――_Strabo_, bks. 13 & 14.
=Leucopŏlis=, a town of Caria.
=Leucos=, a river of Macedonia near Pydna.――――A man, &c. _See:_
Idomeneus.
=Leucosia=, a small island in the Tyrrhene sea. It received its name
from one of the companions of Æneas, who was drowned there, or from
one of the Sirens, who was thrown there by the sea. _Strabo_, bk. 5.
――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 15, li. 708.
=Leucosy̆rii=, a people of Asia Minor, called afterwards Cappadocians.
_Strabo_, bk. 12.――――The same name is given to the inhabitants of
Cilicia, where it borders on Cappadocia. _Cornelius Nepos_, bk. 14,
ch. 1.
=Leucŏthoe=, or =Leucothea=, the wife of Athamas, changed into a sea
deity. _See:_ Ino. She was called Matuta by the Romans, who raised
her a temple, where all the people, particularly women, offered
vows to their brother’s children. They did not entreat the deity to
protect their own children, because Ino had been unfortunate in hers.
No female slaves were permitted to enter the temple; or if their
curiosity tempted them to transgress this rule, they were beaten away
with the greatest severity. To this supplicating for other people’s
children, Ovid alludes in these lines, _Fasti_, bk. 6:
_Non tamen hanc pro stirpe suâ pia mater adorat,
Ipsa parum felix visa fuisse parens._
――――A daughter of king Orchamus by Eurynome. Apollo became enamoured
of her, and to introduce himself to her with greater facility, he
assumed the shape and features of her mother. Their happiness was
complete, when Clytia, who tenderly loved Apollo, and was jealous
of his amours with Leucothoe, discovered the whole intrigue to her
father, who ordered his daughter to be buried alive. The lover,
unable to save her from death, sprinkled nectar and ambrosia on
her tomb, which, penetrating as far as the body, changed it into a
beautiful tree, which bears frankincense. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 4, li. 196.――――An island in the Tyrrhene sea, near Capreæ.――――A
fountain of Samos.――――A town of Egypt,――――of Arabia. _Mela_, bk. 2,
ch. 7.――――A part of Asia which produces frankincense.
=Leuctra=, a village of Bœotia, between Platæa and Thespia, famous for
the victory which Epaminondas the Theban general obtained over the
superior force of Cleombrotus king of Sparta, on the 8th of July,
B.C. 371. In this famous battle 4000 Spartans were killed with their
king Cleombrotus, and no more than 300 Thebans. From that time the
Spartans lost the empire of Greece, which they had obtained for
nearly 500 years. _Plutarch_, _Pelopidas_ & _Agesilaus_.――_Cornelius
Nepos_, _Epaminondas_.――_Justin_, bk. 6, ch. 6.――_Xenophon_,
_Hellenica_.――_Diodorus_, bk. 15.――_Pausanias_, _Laconia_.――_Cicero_,
_de Officiis_, bk. 1, ch. 18; _Tusculanæ Disputationes_, bk. 1,
ch. 46; _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 6, ltr. 1.――_Strabo_, bk. 9.
=Leuctrum=, a town of Laconia. _Strabo_, bk. 8.
=Leucus=, one of the companions of Ulysses, killed before Troy by
Antiphus son of Priam. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 4, li. 491.
=Leucyanias=, a river of Peloponnesus, flowing into the Alpheus.
_Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 21.
=Levinus.= _See:_ Lævinus.
=Leutychĭdes=, a Lacedæmonian, made king of Sparta on the expulsion of
Demaratus. _Herodotus_, bk. 6, ch. 65, &c. _See:_ Leotychides.
=Lexovii=, a people of Gaul, at the mouth of the Seine, conquered with
great slaughter by a lieutenant of Julius Cæsar. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_.
=Libānius=, a celebrated sophist of Antioch in the age of the emperor
Julian. He was educated at Athens, and opened a school at Antioch,
which produced some of the best and most learned of the literary
characters of the age. Libanius was naturally vain and arrogant,
and he contemptuously refused the offers of the emperor Julian, who
wished to purchase his friendship and intimacy by raising him to
offices of the highest splendour and affluence in the empire. When
Julian had imprisoned the senators of Antioch for their impertinence,
Libanius undertook the defence of his fellow-citizens, and paid a
visit to the emperor, in which he astonished him by the boldness and
independence of his expressions, and the firmness and resolution of
his mind. Some of his orations, and above 1600 of his letters, are
extant; they discover much affectation and obscurity of style, and
we cannot perhaps much regret the loss of writings which afforded
nothing but a display of pedantry, and quotations from Homer.
Julian submitted his writings to the judgment of Libanius with the
greatest confidence, and the sophist freely rejected or approved, and
showed that he was more attached to the person than the fortune and
greatness of his prince. The time of his death is unknown. The best
edition of Libanius seems to be that of Paris, folio, 1606, with a
second volume published by Morell, 1627. His epistles have been
edited by Wolf, folio, 1738.
=Libănus=, a high mountain of Syria, famous for its cedars. _Strabo_,
bk. 6.
=Libentīna=, a surname of Venus, who had a temple at Rome, where the
young women used to dedicate the toys and childish amusements of
their youth, when arrived at nubile years. _Varro_, _de Lingua
Latina_, bk. 5, ch. 6.
=Līber=, a surname of Bacchus, which signifies _free_. He received
this name from his delivering some cities of Bœotia from slavery,
or, according to others, because wine, of which he was the patron,
delivered mankind from their cares, and made them speak with freedom
and unconcern. The word is often used for wine itself. _Seneca_, _de
Tranquilitate Animi_.
=Libĕra=, a goddess, the same as Proserpine. _Cicero_, _Against Verres_,
bk. 4, ch. 48.――――A name given to Ariadne by Bacchus, or Liber, when
he had married her. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 3, li. 513.
=Libĕrālia=, festivals yearly celebrated in honour of Bacchus, the
17th of March. Slaves were then permitted to speak with freedom, and
everything bore the appearance of independence. They were much the
same as the Dionysia of the Greeks. _Varro._
=Libertas=, a goddess of Rome who had a temple on mount Aventine,
raised by Tiberius Gracchus, and improved and adorned by Pollio
with many elegant statues and brazen columns, and a gallery in which
were deposited the public acts of the state. She was represented
as a woman in a light dress, holding a rod in one hand and a cap in
the other, both signs of independence, as the former was used by the
magistrates in the manumission of slaves, and the latter was worn
by slaves, who were soon to be set at liberty. Sometimes a cat was
placed at her feet, as this animal is very fond of liberty, and
impatient when confined. _Livy_, bk. 24, ch. 16; bk. 25, ch. 7.
――_Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 3, poem 1, li. 72.――_Plutarch_, _Gracchus_.
――_Dio Cassius_, bk. 44.
=Lībēthra=, a fountain of Magnesia in Thessaly, or of Bœotia,
according to some, sacred to the muses, who from thence are called
_Libethrides_. _Virgil_, _Eclogues_, poem 7, li. 21.――_Pliny_, bk. 4,
ch. 9.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 3.――_Strabo_, bks. 9 & 10.
=Lībethrĭdes=, a name given to the Muses from the fountain Libethra, or
from mount Libethrus in Thrace.
=Libici=, =Libecii=, or =Libri=, a people of Gaul who passed into Italy,
A.U.C. 364. _Livy_, bk. 5, ch. 35; bk. 21, ch. 38.――_Pliny_, bk. 3,
ch. 17.――_Polybius_, bk. 2.
=Libĭtīna=, a goddess at Rome, who presided over funerals. According to
some, she is the same as Venus, or rather Proserpine. Servius Tullius
first raised her a temple at Rome, where everything necessary for
funerals was exposed to sale, and where the registers of the dead
were usually kept. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 4.――_Livy_,
bk. 40, ch. 19.――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 5, ch. 2.――_Plutarch_,
_Quæstiones Romanæ_.
=Libo=, a friend of Pompey, who watched over the fleet, &c. _Plutarch._
――――A Roman citizen, &c. _Horace_, bk. 1, ltr. 19.――――A friend of the
first triumvirate, who killed himself and was condemned after death.