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rivers, and occafioned a dreadful mortality among the 

 cattle. 



LoiMlAlKE, king of France, fucceedcd his fathel", Lewis 

 d'Oatremer, in 954, being only in the 14th year of his age. 

 He was at firll under the proteftion of Hugh, duke of 

 France, but on the death of that prince, in the following 

 year, he affiimed the reins of government. In 959, he 

 was perfuaded to enter into a treacherous plot for feizing 

 the perfon of Richard, duke' of N-ormandy, which failing 

 of fuccefs an open war broke out, and the duke, preffed 

 by the fuperior forces of his antagonill, invited the Danes 

 to his fupport. France was accordingly afflidled by their 

 indefatigable rapacity: independent and uncontrouled in 

 their depredations, they refiifed to fubfcribe the peaco which 

 Richard concluded, and their retreat was with difficulty 

 purchafed by the treafures of France and Normandy. Lo- 

 thaire had no fooner difengagcd himfelf from this diftrcfs, 

 than he attempted to opprefs his vaffal, the young count of 

 Flanders, who was preferved by the interpolition of the 

 Normans ; and the king, baffled in his endeavours to aggran- 

 dize himfelf by arms, flattered himfelf, with the hope of 

 relloring the grandeur of the lioufe of Charlemagne, by 

 advantageous alliances. He accordingly efpoufed Emma, 

 the daughter of Lothairc, king of Italy, and bellowed his 

 filler on Conrad, king of Burgundy, but the (hort refpite 

 allowed by a peace was followed by years of defolating war, 

 and the pofTefllon of Lorrain was difputed, during four fuccef- 

 five campaigns, by the kings of Germany and France. At 

 length Lothaire thought it advifable to make peace, and 

 leave the emperor in poneifion of Lorrain. This treaty 

 gave great difguft to the French nobles ; but the king found 

 means to pacify or controul them ; and on the death of 

 Otho, the emperor, he re-entered Lorrain, took the town of 

 Verdun, and afliiultcd Cambray. When his afj'irs abroad 

 were returning to a ilate of great profperity, and when his 

 authority at home was acquiring ftrength, he was fuddeiily 

 furprifed by the approach of death, whofe power he was 

 unable to refill. He died at Rheims in the forty-fixth year 

 of his age, leaving his crown to his fon Lewis V. Lo- 

 thaire was unqueftionably poffeired of vigour and ahihties, 

 but he was infincere, and alnioR always engaged in con- 

 tefts with his neighbours and vaflals. Univer. Hid. Hiil. 

 of France, London, 1790. 



LOTHAU, in Geosraphy, a town of Germany, in the 

 principality of Culmbach ; gmiles ^l^ of Culmbach. 



LOTHIAN, an extenfive diftrict of Scotland, divided 

 into three parts ; •viz. Ealt-Lothian, or Haddingtonfhire. 

 Mid-Lothian, or Ediuburghfhire, and Weft-Lothian, or 

 Linlithgowfhire. 



LOTH1NGLA.ND, once an ifland, and part of the 

 county of Suffolk, towards the German ocean, on the N.E. 

 part of the county, and the mod caftern part ol Great 

 Britain ; now a peninfula, joined to the mainland by a nar- 

 row neck near Loweftoft, formed, as it has been fuppofed, 

 about the year 1722. It is bounded on the N. by the river 

 Yare, on the E. by the fea, by a lake, called Lothing, on 

 the S., and by the river Waveny on the W. Fron N. to 

 S. it is in length more than ten miles, and fix in breadth ; 

 and contains Tixteen parilhes, of which Lowclloft is the 

 principal and only market-town. 



LOTICH, Peter, in Biography, furnamed Secundus, 

 a diftinguidied modern Latin poet, was born, in 1528, in 

 the county of Hanau, in Germany. He received the early 

 part of his education at a convent in his native place, and 

 purfued his maturer ftudies at Frankfort, Marpurg, and 

 Wittemburg, at which lad place he contracted an intimacy 

 with Melanfthon and Camerarius. During the war in 



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Saxony he ferved a campaign in the army. In 1 ':5o he 

 vifited France with fome young perfons to whom he was go- 

 vernor, and he continued tiiere nearly four years. He af- 

 terwards went to It?ly, where he had nearly been dedroyed 

 by poifon prepared for another purpofe : he recovered from 

 the effefts of it, but was fubjedl to frequent relapfes, one 

 of which carried him off in the year 1560. He had taken" 

 his degree of doftor of phyfic at Padua, and three years 

 previoufly to his death was chofen profeffor in that fcience at 

 Heidelberg. In that lituation he was honoured with the 

 frienddiip of the eleiflor-palatine, and by the excellence of 

 his difpolition, and the fingular franknefs and fincerity of 

 his charafter, rendered himfelf univerfally beloved. A 

 coUeflion of his Latin poems was publidied the year 

 after his deceafe, with a dedicatory epidle by Joachim Ca- 

 merarius, who praifes him as the bed poet of his age : it has 

 been very frequently reprinted. He had a younger brother 

 Chrillian, likewife a poet. A coUeftion of his poems, with 

 thofe of his relation .John Peter Lotich, was publiflied in 1630. 

 John Peter Lotich was a phyfician of eminence, who main- 

 tained the literary character of his family by a variety of 

 writings. He was grandfon of the above-mentioned Chrif- 

 tian. He exercifed his profeflion at Minden and at Heffe, 

 and became profeffor of medicine at Rintlen in Wedphalia. 

 He died very much regretted in 1652. His principal works 

 are, " Conciliorum et Obfervationum Mcdicinalium ;" 

 " Latin Poems:" " A Commentary on Petronius ;" and 

 "A Hidory ef the Emperors Ferdinand II. and III." in 

 four volumes, is attributed to him. 



LOTIERO, St., in Geography, a town of Naples, in 

 Principato Ultra ; 15 miles E.N E. of Benevento. 



LOTINE, in the ^nciail Mvfic. Athenacus relates, in 

 his Deipnos. that the flute entitled lotina was the fame in- 

 drument as that which the Alexandrians termed Phot'mgn, 

 adding, that it was made of the wood of the lotos tree, which 

 grew in Africa. 



LOTION, LoTio, popularly called ixiajb, denotes a 

 form of medicine, made up of liquid matters, chiefly ufed 

 for beautifying the lltin, and cleaniing it from thofe defor- 

 mities which a didempered blood fon'.etimes throws on it ; 

 or rather, which are occafioned by a preternatural fccretion. 



Lotion alfo denotes a remedy, poffefling a medium be- 

 tween a fomentation and a bath. 



There are refrefhing andfomniferous lotions for feverifh 

 perfons, made of leaves, flowers, and roots boiled, with 

 which the feet and hands of the patient are wafhed ; and after 

 walhing, wrapped up in linen, Iteeped in the fame decoftion 

 till dry. 



There are lotions alfo for the head and hair. 



Lotion, in Pharmacy, denotes a preparation of medi- 

 cines, by walhing them in fome liquid, either made very hght, 

 fo as to take away only the dregs ; or fharp, fo as to pene- 

 trate them, m order to clear them of fome fait, or corrolive 

 fpirit, as is done to antimony, precipitates, magideries, &c. 

 &c.; or intended to take away fome foulnefs, or ill quality ; or 

 to communicate fome good one. 



Lotion, Saponaceous, Lotio faponacea, the name of a 

 form of medicine prefcribed in the late London pharmaco- 

 peia, being properly foap in a liquid form. It is ordered 

 to be made thus : Take damafli rofe-water, thrce.quarters of 

 a pint ; oil of olives, a quarter of a pint ; ley of tartar, 

 half an ounce in meafurc : rub the ley and oil together till 

 they are mixed, and then gradually add the water. 



LOTOMETRA, in Botany, a name given by many of ■ 

 the ancients to the nymphaea Indica, or ^gyptiaca, called 

 alfo the faba iEg)'ptiaca, and originally the nilufar, an ab- 

 breviation of nilnufar ; nufar fignifying a water-hly, and the 



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