During and after the civil wars of the declining years of the
Roman empire, large numbers of Germans were enlisted in the
service of the rival factions, and were recompensed by gifts
of land, on which they settled as colonists. "They were called
Lœti, and the colonies lœtic colonies, probably from the
German word 'leute,' people, because they were regarded as the
people or men of the empire."
_P. Godwin,
History of France: Ancient Gaul,
book 3, chapter 9, foot-note._
LOG, The.
See EPHAH.