Antonius
they not only defeated coin was certainly not struck in Italy; and it has
but made prisoner.
but made prisoner.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
23, ix.
132.
(Cic.
ad Att.
xiii.
30, 32.
) But Ernesti has re-
28 ; Diod. xvii. 113. ) Libo was the proposer of marked, with some justice, that supposing the accuser
the Poetelia lex, which abolished imprisonment for of Galba and the annalist were the same, it is rather •
debt in the case of the nexi. (Dict. of Ant. s. v. strange that Cicero should have made no mention
Nexum. ) Livy places (viii. 28) this law in the of Libo's historical compositions, when he was
last consulship of Poetėlius, B. C. 326 ; but Nie- speaking of his style of oratory. (Comp. Krause,
buhr thinks (Rom. Hist. vol. iii. pp. 155, &c. , 293) | Vitae et Fragm. Histor. Roman. p. 138. )
it more probable that it was brought forward in his It was perhaps this same Libo who consecrated
dictatorship; and his opinion, which receives sup- the Puteal Scribonianum or Puteal Libonis, of which
port from a corrupt passage of Varro (L. L. vii. | we so frequently read in ancient writers, and which
105, ed. Müller), is adopted also by K. O. Müller is often exhibited on coins of the Scribonia gens.
(ad Varr. l. c. ).
One of these is given below, the obverse represent-
4. M. POETELIUS, M. P. M. N. LIBO, consul ing a female head, with the legend LIBO BON.
B. C. 314, with C. Sulpicius Longus, and magister EVENT. (that is, bonus eventus), and the reverse the
equitum in the following year, 313, to the dictator, puteal adorned with garlands and two lyres.
C. Poetelius Libo. In his consulship, Poetelius The Puteal Scribonianum was an enclosed place
and his colleague gained a brilliant victory over the l in the forum, near the Arcus Fabianus, and was so
## p. 780 (#796) ############################################
780
LIBO.
LIBO.
:
war.
por
1:32
VERANO
COIN OF L. SCRIBONIUS LIBO.
called from its being open at the top, like a puteal | soon afterwards escaped his vigilance and joined
or well. C. F. Hermann, who has carefully exa- Caesar in Grecce. (Caes. B. C. iii. 15, 16, 18, 23,
mined all the passages in ancient writers relating 24 ; Dion Cass. xli. 48. )
to it (Ind. Lect. Marburg. 1840), comes to the con- We hear nothing more of Libo for some time,
clusion that there was only such puteal at Rome, but he probably did not make his submission to
and not two, as was formerly believed, and that it Caesar after the battle of Pharsalia, but united
was dedicated in very ancient times either on ac- himself to those of his party who continued in arms.
count of the whetstone of the augur Navius (comp. At the death of the dictator in B. C. 44, we find
Liv. i. 36), or because the spot had been struck by him in Spain with his son-in-law Sex. Pompey, on
lightning ; that it was subsequently repaired and whose behalf he wrote to the ruling party at Rome.
re-dedicated by Scribonius Libo, who had been (Cic. ad Att. xvi. 4. ) He continued with Pompey
commanded to examine the state of the sacred in the civil wars which followed, and is specially
places (Festus, s. v. Scribonianum); and that Libo mentioned, in B. C. 40, as one of the persons of high
erected in its neighbourhood a tribunal for the rank who was commissioned to conduct to Antony
praetor, in consequence of which the place was of in the East his mother Julia, who had taken refuge
course frequented by persons who had law-suits, with Sex. Pompey in Sicily after the Perusinian
such as money lenders and the like. (Comp. Hor. This mission alarmed Octavian. He feared
Sat. ii. 6. 35, Epist. i. 19. 8; Ov. Rencd. Amor. that Pompey, who was now decidedly master of
561 ; Cic. pro Sex. 8. )
the sea, should unite with Antony to crush him ;
and, in order to gain the favour of the former and of
PVTEAL
his father-in-law Libo, he proposed, on the advice
of Maecenas, to marry Libo's sister, Scribonia, al-
though she was much older than himself, and had
been married twice before. The marriage shortly
after took place, and paved the way for a peace
between the triumvirs and Pompey. This was
FCRIBON
negotiated in the following year (B. C. 39) by Libo,
who crossed over from Sicily to Italy for the pur-
pose, and it was finally settled at Misenum. When
4. L. SCRIBONIUS Libo, the father-in-law of the war was renewed in B. c. 36, Libo for a time
Sex. Pompey, the son of Pompey the Great, and continued faithful to Pompey, but, seeing his cause
consul B. c. 34, is first mentioned in B. c. 56, in hopeless, he deserted him in the following year. In
which year he appears to have been tribune, as
B. C. 34, he was consul with M. Antony, as had
supporting Pompey's views in relation to the affairs been agreed at the peace of Misenum. ” As his
of Egypt in the case of Ptolemy Auletes. (Cic. ad name does not occur again in history, he probably
Fam. i. 1. ) On the breaking out of the civil war died soon afterwards. (Appian, B. C. v. 52, 53,
in B. c. 49, Libo naturally sided with Pompey, and 69–73, 139 ; Dion Cass. xlviii. 16, xlix. 38. )
was entrusted with the command of Etruria. But
5. The M. Livius DRUSUS Libo, who was con-
the rapid approach of Caesar, and the enthusiasm sul B. c. 15, is supposed to have been a younger
with wbich he was every where received, obliged brother of No. 4, and to have been adopted by one
Libo to retire from Etruria and join the consuls in of the Drusi. He is spoken of under Drusus,
Campania, from whence he subsequently proceeded No. 8.
with the rest of the Pompeian party to Brundisium. 6. L. SCRIBONIUS Libo DRUSUS, or Libo Dru-
While here Caesar sent to him Caninius Rebilus, sus, as he is also called, the conspirator against
who was an intimate friend of Libo, to persuade Tiberius, A. D. 16, is supposed to have been a son
him to use his influence with Pompey to effect a of the preceding (No. 5). For an account of him
reconciliation ; but nothing came of this negotia- see DRUSUS, No. 10.
tion. (Flor. iv. 2. $21 ; Lucan, ii. 461; Cic. ad 7. L. SCRIBONIUS LIBO, son, probably, of No. 4,
Att. vii. 12, viii. 11, b; Caes. B. C. i. 26. ) was consul in A. D. 16, with T. Statilius Sisenna
Libo accompanied Pompey to Greece, and was Taurus. (Dion Cass. lvii. 15; Tac. Ann. ii. 1. )
actively engaged in the war that ensued. He and
LIBO, CN. STATI’LIUS, known only from
M. Octavius were placed over the Liburnian and coins, a specimen of which is given below. On the
Achaean fleets, serving as legates to Bibulus, who obverse is a head with cn. STATI. LIBO, and on
had the supreme command of the Pompeian fleet the reverse a patera or discus, and a vessel used
They were very successful against Caesar's generals apparently in sacrifices, with Sacerdos. On some
in Dalmatia ; Dolabella they drove out of the specimens we find praef. (i. e. Praefectus). The
country, and C.
Antonius they not only defeated coin was certainly not struck in Italy; and it has
but made prisoner. (Caes. B. C. iii. 5 ; Dion Cass. been conjectured that it was struck in Spain, and
xli. 40; Florus, iv. 2. $ 31 ; Oros. vi. 15. ) Libo that the head on the obverse represents that of M.
subsequently joined Bibulus ; and, on the death of Agrippa. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 316. )
the latter shortly afterwards, the chief authority in
the fleet appears to have devolved upon him, al-
though no one was expressly appointed to the
supreme command. With fifty ships he appeared
before Brundisium, in order to blockade the
place strictly, as M. Antony was still there with
part of Caesar's troops, waiting for an opportunity
to cross over to Greece. But having suffered a
repulse from Antony, and being prevented by the
cavalry of the latter from obtaining any water, Libo
was obliged to retire from the place, and Antony
زیاد كرا
COIN OP CN, STATILIUS LIBO.
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LICHAS.
781
LICINIA.
LIBON (116wv), an Eleian, was the architect 2. A Spartan, son of Arcesilaus, was proxenus
of the great temple of Zeus in the Altis at Olympia, of Argos and one of the ambassadors who proposed
which was built by the Eleians out of the spoils of to the Argives, without success, in B. C. 422, a
Pisa and other neighbouring cities, which had re renewal of the truce, then expiring, between Argos
volted from them, and had been again subdued. and Sparta. (Thuc. v. 14, 22. ) In B. C. 4:20, when
(Paus. v. 10. § 2 or 3. ) This event is believed to the Spartans had been excluded by the Eleians
have occurred about (l. 50, B. C. 580 (16. vi. 22, from the Olympic games because of their alleged
§ 2 or 4); but there is no reason to suppose breach of the sacred truce in the seizure of Lepreun,
that the temple was commenced immediately, or Lichas sent a chariot into the lists in the name of
even soon, after this date. It seems more probable the Boeotian commonwealth ; but, his horses having
that the temple had not been very long completed won the victory, he came forward and crowned the
when Phidias began to make in it his gold and charioteer, by way of showing that he was himself
ivory statue of Zeus (Ol. 85. 4, B. C. 43? ). Allow the real conqueror. For this he was publicly beaten
ing for the time which so magnificent a work as by the Eleian pabbouxoi, and Sparta did not forget
this temple would occupy, we may safely place the the insult, though no notice was taken of it at ihe
architect's date somewhat before the middle of the time. (Thuc. v. 49, 50 ; Xen. Hell. iii. 2. & 21 ;
fifth century B. C. The temple itself is described Paus. vi. 2. ) In B. c. 418, he succeeded in in-
by Pausanias (v. 10). A few ruins of it remain. ducing the Argives to make peace with Lacedae-
(Stanhope, Olympia, p. 9 ; Cockerell, Bill. Ital. mon after the battle of Mantineia. (Thuc. v. 76. )
1831, No. 191, p. 205; Blonet, Expéilition Scient. In B. C. 412, he was one of the eleven commis-
de la Morie, livr. 11, pl
. 62, foll. ) [P. S. ] sioners sent out to inquire into the conduct of
LI'BYA (11bún). 1. A daughter of Epaphus Astyochus, the Spartan admiral, and was foremost
and Memphis, from whom Libya (Africa) is said in protesting against the treaties which had been
to have derived its name. By Poseidon she is said made with Persia by Chalcideus and Theramenes
to have been the mother of Agenor, Belus, and Lelex. (the Lacedaemonian) respectively, - especially
(Paus. i. 44. $ 3; Apollod. ii. 1. § 4, iii. 1. § 1. ) against that clause in them which acknowledged
2. A daughter of Palamedes, and by Hermes the king's right to all the territories that had been
the mother of Libys. (Hygin. Fab. 160. ) under the rule of his ancestors. We find him,
3. A sister of Asia. (Tzetz. ud Lycoph. however, in the following year, disapproving of the
1277. )
(L. S. ) violence of the Milesians in rising on the Persian
LIBYS, the name of two mythical personages, garrison in their town, as he thought it prudent to
one a son of Libya (Hygin. Fab. 160), and the keep on good terms with the king as long as the
other one of the Tyrrhenian pirates whom Bacchus war with Athens lasted ; and his remonstrances
changed into dolphins. (Ov. Met. iii. 617. ) (L. S. ) so exasperated the Milesians, that, after his death
LIBYSTI'NUS, that is, the Libyan, a sur- (which was a natural one) in their country, they
name under which Apollo was worshipped by the would not allow the Lacedaemonians there to bury
Sicilians, because he was believed to have destroyed him where they wished. (Thuc. viii. 18, 37, 39,
by a pestilence a Libyan fleet which sailed against 43, 52, 84. ) We learn from Xenophon and Plu-
Sicily. (Macrob. Sat. i. 17. )
[L. S. ] tarch that he was famous throughout Greece for his
LICHAS (Alxas), an attendant of Heracles. hospitality, especially in his entertainment of
He brought to his master the deadly garment, and strangers at the Gymnopaedia (see Dict. of Ant. s.
as a punishment, was thrown by him into the sea, v. ); for there is no reason to suppose this Lichas
where the Lichadian islands, between Euboea and a different person, unless, indeed, we press closely
the coast of Locris, were believed to have derived what Plutarch says, - - that he was renowned
their name from him. (Ov. Met. ix. 155, 211, among the Greeks for nothing but his hospitality.
&c. ; Hygin. Fab. 36 ; Strab. ix. p. 426, x. p. (Xen. Mem. i. 2. § 61; Plut. Cim. 10; comp.
447. ) A Latin of the same name occurs in Virgil. Müller, Dor. iv. 9. $ 5. )
(E. E. )
(Aen. x. 315. )
[L. S. ) LICI'NIA. ]. The wife of Claudius Asellus
LICHAS or LICHES (Aixas, aixos). 1. One (Asellus, No. 3], lived about the middle of the
of the Spartan Agathoergi (see Dict. of Ant. second century B. C. When she and Publicia were
s. v. ), who, according to the story, enabled his accused of murdering their husbands, they gave
couutrymen to fulfil the oracle, which had made bail to the praetor for their appearance, but were
their conquest of Tegea conditional on their ob- put to death by order of their relatives, consequently
taining thence the bones of Orestes. Lichas, having by a judicium domesticum. (Liv. Epit. 48 ; Val.
gone to Tegea in the course of his mission, disco- Max. vi. 3. § 8 ; Rein, Criminalrecht der Römer,
vered the existence of a gigantic coffin under a p. 407. )
blacksmith's shop, - a place answering remarkably 2. A vestal virgin, and the daughter of C.
to the enigmatical description of the oracle. He Licinius Crassus, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 145
reported this at home, and, his countrymen having (Crassus, No. 3]. She dedicated in B. c. 123 a
pretended to banish him, he came again to Tegea, chapel in a public place; but the college of pon-
persuaded the smith to let him his house, and tiffs declared, when the matter was laid before
having dug up the bones, returned with them to them by order of the senate, that the dedication
Sparta.
28 ; Diod. xvii. 113. ) Libo was the proposer of marked, with some justice, that supposing the accuser
the Poetelia lex, which abolished imprisonment for of Galba and the annalist were the same, it is rather •
debt in the case of the nexi. (Dict. of Ant. s. v. strange that Cicero should have made no mention
Nexum. ) Livy places (viii. 28) this law in the of Libo's historical compositions, when he was
last consulship of Poetėlius, B. C. 326 ; but Nie- speaking of his style of oratory. (Comp. Krause,
buhr thinks (Rom. Hist. vol. iii. pp. 155, &c. , 293) | Vitae et Fragm. Histor. Roman. p. 138. )
it more probable that it was brought forward in his It was perhaps this same Libo who consecrated
dictatorship; and his opinion, which receives sup- the Puteal Scribonianum or Puteal Libonis, of which
port from a corrupt passage of Varro (L. L. vii. | we so frequently read in ancient writers, and which
105, ed. Müller), is adopted also by K. O. Müller is often exhibited on coins of the Scribonia gens.
(ad Varr. l. c. ).
One of these is given below, the obverse represent-
4. M. POETELIUS, M. P. M. N. LIBO, consul ing a female head, with the legend LIBO BON.
B. C. 314, with C. Sulpicius Longus, and magister EVENT. (that is, bonus eventus), and the reverse the
equitum in the following year, 313, to the dictator, puteal adorned with garlands and two lyres.
C. Poetelius Libo. In his consulship, Poetelius The Puteal Scribonianum was an enclosed place
and his colleague gained a brilliant victory over the l in the forum, near the Arcus Fabianus, and was so
## p. 780 (#796) ############################################
780
LIBO.
LIBO.
:
war.
por
1:32
VERANO
COIN OF L. SCRIBONIUS LIBO.
called from its being open at the top, like a puteal | soon afterwards escaped his vigilance and joined
or well. C. F. Hermann, who has carefully exa- Caesar in Grecce. (Caes. B. C. iii. 15, 16, 18, 23,
mined all the passages in ancient writers relating 24 ; Dion Cass. xli. 48. )
to it (Ind. Lect. Marburg. 1840), comes to the con- We hear nothing more of Libo for some time,
clusion that there was only such puteal at Rome, but he probably did not make his submission to
and not two, as was formerly believed, and that it Caesar after the battle of Pharsalia, but united
was dedicated in very ancient times either on ac- himself to those of his party who continued in arms.
count of the whetstone of the augur Navius (comp. At the death of the dictator in B. C. 44, we find
Liv. i. 36), or because the spot had been struck by him in Spain with his son-in-law Sex. Pompey, on
lightning ; that it was subsequently repaired and whose behalf he wrote to the ruling party at Rome.
re-dedicated by Scribonius Libo, who had been (Cic. ad Att. xvi. 4. ) He continued with Pompey
commanded to examine the state of the sacred in the civil wars which followed, and is specially
places (Festus, s. v. Scribonianum); and that Libo mentioned, in B. C. 40, as one of the persons of high
erected in its neighbourhood a tribunal for the rank who was commissioned to conduct to Antony
praetor, in consequence of which the place was of in the East his mother Julia, who had taken refuge
course frequented by persons who had law-suits, with Sex. Pompey in Sicily after the Perusinian
such as money lenders and the like. (Comp. Hor. This mission alarmed Octavian. He feared
Sat. ii. 6. 35, Epist. i. 19. 8; Ov. Rencd. Amor. that Pompey, who was now decidedly master of
561 ; Cic. pro Sex. 8. )
the sea, should unite with Antony to crush him ;
and, in order to gain the favour of the former and of
PVTEAL
his father-in-law Libo, he proposed, on the advice
of Maecenas, to marry Libo's sister, Scribonia, al-
though she was much older than himself, and had
been married twice before. The marriage shortly
after took place, and paved the way for a peace
between the triumvirs and Pompey. This was
FCRIBON
negotiated in the following year (B. C. 39) by Libo,
who crossed over from Sicily to Italy for the pur-
pose, and it was finally settled at Misenum. When
4. L. SCRIBONIUS Libo, the father-in-law of the war was renewed in B. c. 36, Libo for a time
Sex. Pompey, the son of Pompey the Great, and continued faithful to Pompey, but, seeing his cause
consul B. c. 34, is first mentioned in B. c. 56, in hopeless, he deserted him in the following year. In
which year he appears to have been tribune, as
B. C. 34, he was consul with M. Antony, as had
supporting Pompey's views in relation to the affairs been agreed at the peace of Misenum. ” As his
of Egypt in the case of Ptolemy Auletes. (Cic. ad name does not occur again in history, he probably
Fam. i. 1. ) On the breaking out of the civil war died soon afterwards. (Appian, B. C. v. 52, 53,
in B. c. 49, Libo naturally sided with Pompey, and 69–73, 139 ; Dion Cass. xlviii. 16, xlix. 38. )
was entrusted with the command of Etruria. But
5. The M. Livius DRUSUS Libo, who was con-
the rapid approach of Caesar, and the enthusiasm sul B. c. 15, is supposed to have been a younger
with wbich he was every where received, obliged brother of No. 4, and to have been adopted by one
Libo to retire from Etruria and join the consuls in of the Drusi. He is spoken of under Drusus,
Campania, from whence he subsequently proceeded No. 8.
with the rest of the Pompeian party to Brundisium. 6. L. SCRIBONIUS Libo DRUSUS, or Libo Dru-
While here Caesar sent to him Caninius Rebilus, sus, as he is also called, the conspirator against
who was an intimate friend of Libo, to persuade Tiberius, A. D. 16, is supposed to have been a son
him to use his influence with Pompey to effect a of the preceding (No. 5). For an account of him
reconciliation ; but nothing came of this negotia- see DRUSUS, No. 10.
tion. (Flor. iv. 2. $21 ; Lucan, ii. 461; Cic. ad 7. L. SCRIBONIUS LIBO, son, probably, of No. 4,
Att. vii. 12, viii. 11, b; Caes. B. C. i. 26. ) was consul in A. D. 16, with T. Statilius Sisenna
Libo accompanied Pompey to Greece, and was Taurus. (Dion Cass. lvii. 15; Tac. Ann. ii. 1. )
actively engaged in the war that ensued. He and
LIBO, CN. STATI’LIUS, known only from
M. Octavius were placed over the Liburnian and coins, a specimen of which is given below. On the
Achaean fleets, serving as legates to Bibulus, who obverse is a head with cn. STATI. LIBO, and on
had the supreme command of the Pompeian fleet the reverse a patera or discus, and a vessel used
They were very successful against Caesar's generals apparently in sacrifices, with Sacerdos. On some
in Dalmatia ; Dolabella they drove out of the specimens we find praef. (i. e. Praefectus). The
country, and C.
Antonius they not only defeated coin was certainly not struck in Italy; and it has
but made prisoner. (Caes. B. C. iii. 5 ; Dion Cass. been conjectured that it was struck in Spain, and
xli. 40; Florus, iv. 2. $ 31 ; Oros. vi. 15. ) Libo that the head on the obverse represents that of M.
subsequently joined Bibulus ; and, on the death of Agrippa. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 316. )
the latter shortly afterwards, the chief authority in
the fleet appears to have devolved upon him, al-
though no one was expressly appointed to the
supreme command. With fifty ships he appeared
before Brundisium, in order to blockade the
place strictly, as M. Antony was still there with
part of Caesar's troops, waiting for an opportunity
to cross over to Greece. But having suffered a
repulse from Antony, and being prevented by the
cavalry of the latter from obtaining any water, Libo
was obliged to retire from the place, and Antony
زیاد كرا
COIN OP CN, STATILIUS LIBO.
## p. 781 (#797) ############################################
LICHAS.
781
LICINIA.
LIBON (116wv), an Eleian, was the architect 2. A Spartan, son of Arcesilaus, was proxenus
of the great temple of Zeus in the Altis at Olympia, of Argos and one of the ambassadors who proposed
which was built by the Eleians out of the spoils of to the Argives, without success, in B. C. 422, a
Pisa and other neighbouring cities, which had re renewal of the truce, then expiring, between Argos
volted from them, and had been again subdued. and Sparta. (Thuc. v. 14, 22. ) In B. C. 4:20, when
(Paus. v. 10. § 2 or 3. ) This event is believed to the Spartans had been excluded by the Eleians
have occurred about (l. 50, B. C. 580 (16. vi. 22, from the Olympic games because of their alleged
§ 2 or 4); but there is no reason to suppose breach of the sacred truce in the seizure of Lepreun,
that the temple was commenced immediately, or Lichas sent a chariot into the lists in the name of
even soon, after this date. It seems more probable the Boeotian commonwealth ; but, his horses having
that the temple had not been very long completed won the victory, he came forward and crowned the
when Phidias began to make in it his gold and charioteer, by way of showing that he was himself
ivory statue of Zeus (Ol. 85. 4, B. C. 43? ). Allow the real conqueror. For this he was publicly beaten
ing for the time which so magnificent a work as by the Eleian pabbouxoi, and Sparta did not forget
this temple would occupy, we may safely place the the insult, though no notice was taken of it at ihe
architect's date somewhat before the middle of the time. (Thuc. v. 49, 50 ; Xen. Hell. iii. 2. & 21 ;
fifth century B. C. The temple itself is described Paus. vi. 2. ) In B. c. 418, he succeeded in in-
by Pausanias (v. 10). A few ruins of it remain. ducing the Argives to make peace with Lacedae-
(Stanhope, Olympia, p. 9 ; Cockerell, Bill. Ital. mon after the battle of Mantineia. (Thuc. v. 76. )
1831, No. 191, p. 205; Blonet, Expéilition Scient. In B. C. 412, he was one of the eleven commis-
de la Morie, livr. 11, pl
. 62, foll. ) [P. S. ] sioners sent out to inquire into the conduct of
LI'BYA (11bún). 1. A daughter of Epaphus Astyochus, the Spartan admiral, and was foremost
and Memphis, from whom Libya (Africa) is said in protesting against the treaties which had been
to have derived its name. By Poseidon she is said made with Persia by Chalcideus and Theramenes
to have been the mother of Agenor, Belus, and Lelex. (the Lacedaemonian) respectively, - especially
(Paus. i. 44. $ 3; Apollod. ii. 1. § 4, iii. 1. § 1. ) against that clause in them which acknowledged
2. A daughter of Palamedes, and by Hermes the king's right to all the territories that had been
the mother of Libys. (Hygin. Fab. 160. ) under the rule of his ancestors. We find him,
3. A sister of Asia. (Tzetz. ud Lycoph. however, in the following year, disapproving of the
1277. )
(L. S. ) violence of the Milesians in rising on the Persian
LIBYS, the name of two mythical personages, garrison in their town, as he thought it prudent to
one a son of Libya (Hygin. Fab. 160), and the keep on good terms with the king as long as the
other one of the Tyrrhenian pirates whom Bacchus war with Athens lasted ; and his remonstrances
changed into dolphins. (Ov. Met. iii. 617. ) (L. S. ) so exasperated the Milesians, that, after his death
LIBYSTI'NUS, that is, the Libyan, a sur- (which was a natural one) in their country, they
name under which Apollo was worshipped by the would not allow the Lacedaemonians there to bury
Sicilians, because he was believed to have destroyed him where they wished. (Thuc. viii. 18, 37, 39,
by a pestilence a Libyan fleet which sailed against 43, 52, 84. ) We learn from Xenophon and Plu-
Sicily. (Macrob. Sat. i. 17. )
[L. S. ] tarch that he was famous throughout Greece for his
LICHAS (Alxas), an attendant of Heracles. hospitality, especially in his entertainment of
He brought to his master the deadly garment, and strangers at the Gymnopaedia (see Dict. of Ant. s.
as a punishment, was thrown by him into the sea, v. ); for there is no reason to suppose this Lichas
where the Lichadian islands, between Euboea and a different person, unless, indeed, we press closely
the coast of Locris, were believed to have derived what Plutarch says, - - that he was renowned
their name from him. (Ov. Met. ix. 155, 211, among the Greeks for nothing but his hospitality.
&c. ; Hygin. Fab. 36 ; Strab. ix. p. 426, x. p. (Xen. Mem. i. 2. § 61; Plut. Cim. 10; comp.
447. ) A Latin of the same name occurs in Virgil. Müller, Dor. iv. 9. $ 5. )
(E. E. )
(Aen. x. 315. )
[L. S. ) LICI'NIA. ]. The wife of Claudius Asellus
LICHAS or LICHES (Aixas, aixos). 1. One (Asellus, No. 3], lived about the middle of the
of the Spartan Agathoergi (see Dict. of Ant. second century B. C. When she and Publicia were
s. v. ), who, according to the story, enabled his accused of murdering their husbands, they gave
couutrymen to fulfil the oracle, which had made bail to the praetor for their appearance, but were
their conquest of Tegea conditional on their ob- put to death by order of their relatives, consequently
taining thence the bones of Orestes. Lichas, having by a judicium domesticum. (Liv. Epit. 48 ; Val.
gone to Tegea in the course of his mission, disco- Max. vi. 3. § 8 ; Rein, Criminalrecht der Römer,
vered the existence of a gigantic coffin under a p. 407. )
blacksmith's shop, - a place answering remarkably 2. A vestal virgin, and the daughter of C.
to the enigmatical description of the oracle. He Licinius Crassus, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 145
reported this at home, and, his countrymen having (Crassus, No. 3]. She dedicated in B. c. 123 a
pretended to banish him, he came again to Tegea, chapel in a public place; but the college of pon-
persuaded the smith to let him his house, and tiffs declared, when the matter was laid before
having dug up the bones, returned with them to them by order of the senate, that the dedication
Sparta.
