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81 was sent by Sulla with
of his possessing ten pounds' weight of silver plate. proconsular authority against Sertorius. Luscus
(Liv. Epit. 14 ; Zonar. viii. 6; Gell. xvii. 21. ) drove the Sertorians through the passes of the
The love of luxury and the degeneracy of morals, Pyrenees into Spain, and at first by his superior
which had already commenced, brought out still forces, both by land and sea, rendered the situation
more prominently the simplicity of life and the in- of Sertorius highly precarious. (Eckhel, vol. v. p.
tegrity of character which distinguished Fabricius 134 ; Plut. Sert. 7 ; Sall
. B. J. 77. ) [W. B. D. ]
as well as his contemporary Curius Dentatus ; and LUSCUS, AUFI'DIUS, the chief magistrate
ancient writers love to tell of the frugal way in at Fundi, ridiculed by Horace, on account of the
which they lived on their hereditary farms, and ridiculous and pompous airs he gave himself when
how they refused the rich presents which the Maecenas and his friends passed through Fundi, in
Samnite ambassadors offered them. Fabricius died their celebrated journey to Brundisiumn. Horace
as poor as he had lived ; he left no dowry for his calls him praetor ; but. as Fundi was. a praefectura,
daughters, which the senate, however, furnished ; and not a municipium, Luscus must have been
and in order to pay the greatest possible respect to sent from Rome simply as praefectus, and assumed


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LYCABAS.
843
LYCASTUS.
the title of praetor to enhance his dignity. (Hor. / sonages mentioned by Ovid (Met. ü. 625, v. 60,
Sat, i, 5. 34–36. )
xii. 302).
(L. S. )
LUSCUS, M. FU'RIUS, plebeian aedile with LYCAEUS (Aukaios), sometimes also Lyceus, a
C. Sempronius Blnesus, B. c. 187, exhibited a surname of certain divinities worshipped on mount
second time the plebeii ludi. (Liv. xxxix. 7. ) Lycaeum in Arcadia, as for instance Zeus, who had
C. LU'SIUS, a nephew of C. Marius, and tri- a sanctuary on it, in which the festival of the Lycaca
bune of the soldiers in the Cimbric war, B, C. 111 was celebrated. No one was allowed to enter the
- 106, was slain by his tent-cornrade, Trebonius, for temple, and if any one forced his way in, he was
attempting a criminal assault upon him. Marius believed to stay within one year, and to lose his
acquitted and commended Trebonius. (Plut. Mar. shadow (Paus. viii. 2. § 1, 38. § 4, &c. ; Pind. Ol.
14; Cic. pro Mil. 4 ; Schol. Bob. pro Mil. p. 279, xiii. 154). According to others those who entered
Orelli ; Val. Max. ri. 1. $ 12. ) [W, B. D. ] it were stoned to death by the Arcadians, or were
LU'SIUS GETA. [Geta. ]
called stags, and obliged to take to flight to save
LU'SIUS QUIETUS. (Quietus. )
their lives (Plut. Quaest. Gracc. 39). Pan also
LUTA'RIUS. (LEONNORIUS. )
was called the Lycaean, because he was born and
LUTA'TIA GENS, plebeian. The name is had a sanctuary on mount Lycaeon (Paus, viii. 38.
sometimes written in MSS. Luctatius as well as $ 4; Strab. viii. p. 380 ; Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i.
Lutatius: in the poets the u in the latter form is 16 ; Virg. Aen. viii
. 344). Lycaeus also occurs as
short (Sil. Ital. vi. 687; Claudian, in Eutrop. i. a surname of Apollo. See Lycius. (L. S. ]
455. ) This gens first became distinguished in Roman LYCAMBES. [ARCHiLoch Us. )
history by C. Lutatius Catulus, who was consul LYCAON (Aurówv). 1. A son of Pelasgus by
B. C. 242, the last year of the first Punic war. Its Meliboea, the daughter of Oceanus, and king of
cognomens are CATULUs, Cerco, and PINTHIA ; Arcadia (Apollod. iii. 8. $ 1). Others call him a
but Cerco is the only cognomen which we find son of Pelasgus by Cyllene (Schol. ad Eurip. Orest.
upon coins. The Lutatii had a burial-place (sc-1642), and Dionysius of Halicarnassus (i. 11, 13)
pulchrum Lutatiorum) beyond the Tiber, which is distinguishes between an elder and a younger
mentioned in B. C. 82. (Oros. v. 21. )
Lycaon, the former of whom is called a son of
LUTATIUS, the author of an historical work, Aezeus and father of Deianeira, by whom Pelasgus
entitled Communis Historia, or Communes Historiae, became the father of the younger Lycaon. The
of which a fourth book is quoted. (Probus, ad traditions about him place Lycaon in very different
Virg. Georg. iii. 280, Serv. ad Aen. ix. 710. ) | lights, for according to some, he was a barbarian
Some writers consider him to be the same as the who even defied the gods (Ov. Met. i. 198, &c. ),
C. Lutatius Catulus who perished in the proscription while others describe him as the first civiliser of
of Marius [CATULUS, No. 3]; but he was pro- Arcadia, who built the town of Lycosura, and in-
bably a different person, as Cicero makes no men- troduced the worship of Zeus Lycaeus. It is added
tion of the Communis Historia in his enumeration that he sacrificed a child on the altar of Zeus, and
of the works of Catulus. (Cic. Brut. 35. ) The that during the sacrifice he was changed by Zeus
fragments of this work are collected by Krause into a wolf (Paus. viii. 2. $ 1; comp. Ov. Met. i.
(Vitae et Fragm. Hist. Lat. p. 318, &c. ). | 237). By several wives Lycaon became the father
LUTATIUS DAPHNIS, a celebrated gram- of a large number of sons, some say fifty, and others
marian, who was purchased by Q. Lutatius Catulus only twenty-two; but neither their number nor
(CATULUS, No. 3) at an immense sum, and soon their names are the same in all accounts (
(Apollod. ,
afterwards manumitted. (Suet. de Il. Gram. 3. ) Dionys. ll. cc. ; Paus. viii. 3. & 1; Eustath, ad
Q. LUTATIUS DIODOʻRUS, received the Hom. p. 313). The sons of Lycaon are said to
Roman franchise from Sulla, through the influence have been notorious for their insolence and impiety,
of Q. Lutatius Catulus. He afterwards lived at and Zeus visited them in the disguise of a poor
Lilybaeum, where he was robbed by Verres. (Cic. man, with a view to punish them. They invited
Verr. iv, 17. )
him to a repast, and on the suggestion of one of
C. LUTOʻRIUS PRISCUS. [PRISCUS. ] them, Maenalus, they mixed in one of the dishes
LUXO'RIUS flourished in Africa under the set before him the entrails of a boy whom they
Vandal king Hilderic during the early part of the had murdered. According to Ovid Zeus was re-
sixth century.
His name is attached to a series of cognised and worshipped by the Arcadian people,
eighty-nine short poems or epigrams in various but Lycaon, after a vain attempt to kill the god,
metres, many of them coarse, all of them dull. The resolved to try him with the dish of human fesh
language and versification, however, show that the (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 481 ; Eratosth. Catast. 8). How-
author must have been a man of education, well ever, Zeus pushed away the table which bore the
acquainted with the models of classical antiquity, 1 horrible food, and the place where this happened was
and one or two of the pieces are curious, inasmuch afterwards called Trapezus. Lycaon and all his
as they prove that the irregularities of the clergy sons, with the exception of the youngest (or eldest),
had already begun to afford a theme for satire. Nyctimus, were killed by Zeus with a flash of
Luxorius is one of the many poets to whom the lightning, or according to others, were changed
charming Pervigilium Veneris has been ascribed, into wolves (Ov. , Tzetz. ll. cc. ; Paus. viii. 3. $ 1).
but assuredly none of his acknowledged productions Some say that the flood of Deucalion occurred in
are of such a stamp as to induce us to believe him the reign of Nyctimus, as a punishment of the
capable of having created any thing so bright and crimes of the Lycaonids. (Apollod. I. c. )
graceful. (Burmann, Antholog. Lat. ii. p. 579, iii. 2. A son of Priam and Laothoe, was taken and
27, 41, or n. 296—384, ed. Meyer. ) [W. R. ] slain by Achilles. (Hom. Il. iii. 333, xxi. 35, &c. ,
LYAEUS (Avaios), the god who frees men from xxii. 46, &c. )
care and anxiety, a surname of Bacchus. (Eustath. 3. A Lycian, the father of Pandarus. (Hom.
ad Hom. p. 108 ; Virg. Georg. ii. 229. ) [L. S. ) Il. ii. 8:26, v. 197. )
(L. S. ]
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814
LYCINUS.
LYCISCUS.
Itone, was king of Crete and husband of Ida, the conquest by the Romans. (Niebuhr, Kleine Schrift
daughter of Corybas (Diod. iv. 60). The town of | p. 461. )
(E. H. B. ]
Lycastus in Crete derived its name from him or an LYCIS (NÚkis), an Athenian comic poet, who is
autochthon of the same name (Steph. Byz. s. r. ). only known by the reference to him in the Frogs
A story about another Lycastus, likewise a Cretan, of Aristophanes (14 ; comp. Schol
. and Suid. s. r. ).
is related by Parthenius (Erot. 35). (L. S. ] He is also called Lycus. In fact Lycis, Lycins,
LY'CEAS (Auréas), of Naucratis, the author of and Lycus, are only different forms of the same
a work on Egypt, which is mentioned by Athe- name. (Ruhnken, ad Rutil. Lup. p. 100. ) (P. S. ]
naeus (xiii. p. 560, e. ; xiv. p. 616, d. ) and by LYCISCUS (Aukiokos). 1. A Messenian, de-
Pliny, in his list of authorities for his 36th scended from Aepytus. In the first Messenian
book.
[P. S. ]
war, the Messenians, having consulted the Delphic
LYCE'GENES (Auknyers), a surname of oracle, were told that to save their country, they
A pollo, describing him either as the god born in must offer hy night, to the gods below, an unstained
Lycia, or as the god born of light. (1lom. II. iv. virgin of the blood of the Aepytidae. The ! ot fell
101, 119; comp. Lycelus. )
(L. S. ) on the daughter of Lyciscus ; but Epebolus, the
LYCEIA (Aurela), a surname of Artvinis, seer, pronounced her to be unfit for the sacrifice, as
under which she had a temple at Troezenc, built being no daughter of Lyciscus at all, but a suppo-
by Hippolytus. (Paus. ï. 31. § 6. ) (L. S. ] sititious child. Meanwhile, Lyciscus, in alarm,
LYCEIUS (Aukeios), a surname of Apollo, the took the maiden with him and withdrew to Sparin.
meaning of which is not quite certain, for soinc de llore she died ; and several years after, as he was
rive it from aúxos, a wolf, so that it would mean visiting her tomb, to which he ofton resorted, he
" the wolf-slayer ;" others from aúkn, light, ac- was seized by some Arcadian horsemen, carried
cording to which it would mean “ the giver of back to Ithome, and put upon his trial for treason.
light ;” and others again from the country of Lycia. His defence was, that he had fled, not as being
There are indeed passages in the ancient writers hostile to his country or indifferent to her fnte, but
by which each of these three derivations may be in the full belief of what Epebolus had declared.
satisfactorily proved. As for the derivation from This being unexpectedly confirmed by the priestess
Lycia, we know that he was worshipped at mount of Hera, who confessed that she was herself the
Cragus and Ida in Lycia ; but he was also wor- mother of the girl, Lyciscus was acquitted. (Paus.
shipped at Lycoreia on mount Parnassus, at iv. 9, 12. ) [ARISTODEMUS, No. 1. )
Sicyon (Paus. ii. 9. $ 7), Argos (ii. 19. § 3), and 2. An Athenian demagogue, obliged Eurypto-
Athens (i. 19. § 4). In nearly all cases, more- lemus to drop his threatened prosecution of Calli-
over, where the god appears with this name, we xenus for his illegal decree against the commanders
find traditions concerning wolves. Thus the de- who had conquered at Arginusae, B. C. 406, by
scendants of Deucalion, who founded Lycoreia, moving that such as attempted to prevent the peo-
followed a wolf's roar ; Latona came to Delos as a ple from doing what they chose should have their
she-wolf, and she was conducted by wolves to the fate decided by the same ballot as the generals
river Xanthus ; wolves protected the treasures of themselves. (Xen. Hell. i. 7. $ 13. ) It is possible
Apollo ; and near the great altar at Delphi there that the comedy of Alexis, called "Lyciscus," had
stood an iron wolf with inscriptions. (Paus. x. reference to this demagogue. (See Meineke, Frag.
14. § 4. ) The attack of a wolf upon a herd of Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 274, 275, iii. p. 446 ; Athen.
cattle occasioned the worship of Apollo Lyceius at xiii. p. 595, d. )
Argos (Plut. Pyrrh. 32 ; comp. Schol. ad Apollon. 3. An officer of Cassander, was sent by him to
Rhod. ii. 124); and the Sicyonians are said to Epeirus as regent and general, when the Epeirots
have been taught by A pollo in what manner they had passed sentence of banishment against their
should get rid of wolves. (Paus. ii. 19. § 3. ) In king Acacides and allied themselves with Cassan-
addition to all this, Apollo is called AUKOKTÓvos. der, in B. C. 316. In B. c. 314, Cassander left him
(Soph. Elect. 7; Paus. ii. 9. $ 7; Hesych. s. v. ) in command of a strong body of troops in Acarna-
Apollo, by the name of Lyceius, is therefore gene- nia, which he had organised against the Aetolians,
rally characterised as the destroyer. (Müller, who favoured the cause of Antigonus. Lyciscus
Dor.