LUC 



Mgh rock, is feated on the river Byftzrna, in a pleafant and 

 fertile country. This town contains msny churches and 

 convents ; and in its fuhnrbs are many Jews, who arc ac- 

 commodated with a fpacious fynagogne. It lias three fairs 

 in the year, one of which lads a month ; and they are fre- 

 quented by German, Greek, Armenian, Arabian, RulTian, 

 Tnrkifh, and other traders and merchants. Tlie chief tri- 

 bunal for Little Poland was formerly held here, together 

 with a provincial diet and a court of judicature. Lublin is 

 diftant 8j miles S.E. of Warfaw. N. lat. 51 6'. E. long. 



LUBNEKI, a town of Sa«io.jitia : 10 miles N. of Mied- 

 niki. 



LUBNL a town of Ruffia, in tlie governn'.ent of Kiev, 

 on the Sula ; 8 miles E.S.E. of Kiev. N. lat. jo'. E. 



lo»g- 5- 54'- 



LUBOK, commonly called the Baviaan, or Baboon, an 

 ifland in the Eail Indian fea, not far from the coall of Java, 

 not large, but extremely populous. Seventy or eighty 

 veffels are continually pading to and fro between this iiland 

 and the coafts of Java and Borneo. 



LUBOLO, a province of Angola, in Africa, on the 

 banks of the Coanza. 



LUBOMLA, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia ; 

 32 miles E. of Chelm. 



LUBOZ, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of No- 

 vogrodek ; 16 miles N.E. "of Novngrodek. 



LL^BRONG, or Teshoo-Loomboo, a town of Thibet, 

 and refiJence of Telhoo Lama, capital of that part of the 

 country which is immediately fubjeft to his authority, is 

 iituated in N. lat. 29' 4' 20", and E. long 89" 7'. This is 

 a large monafterv, confilting of three or four hundred houfes, 

 tlie habitations of the Gylongs, befides temples, maufoleums, 

 and the palace of the fovereign pontiff; in which are com- 

 preliended alio the refidence of the regent, and the dwellings 

 of all the fubordinate officers, both ecclefiallical and civil, 

 belonging to the court. It is included within the hollow 

 face of a liigh rock, and has a fouthern afpeif. Its buildings 

 are all of Hone, none lels than two ftories high, flat-roofed, 

 and covered with a parapet, riling confiderably above the 

 roof, compofed of heath and brufhwood, inferted between 

 frames of timber, which form a ledge below, and are 

 faihioned above into a cornice, capped with mafonry. All 

 the houfes have windows ; that in the centre projecting be- 

 yond the walls, and forming a balcony : they are not doled 

 with fliutters, but black mohair citr:ains. The principal 

 apartment in the upper ilory has an opening over it, covered 

 with a moveable fhed, which ferves the purpofe of fometimes 

 admitting light and an-, and in the winter feafon, occa- 

 iionally, the grateful warmth of the fun. Turner's Tibet. 



LUBUNGAN, a town on the north coall of the iiland 

 of Mindanao. 



LUBWACH, a town of Germany, in the bifhopric of 

 Bamberg ; 8 miles N.E. of Bamberg. 



LUBZ, or LuBiT?;, a town of the duchy of Mecklen- 

 '"^■"gi 23 miles S.S.W. of Gullrow. N. lat. 53- jo'. E. 

 long. 12 . 



LUC EN Diois, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Drome, and chief place oi a canton, in the diltridt of 

 Die, icated on the Drome ; 9 miles S. of Die. 



LUCALA, a town of Africa, in Angola, on a river of 

 the lame name, whi-^h runs into the Coanza ; 30 miles N.E. 

 of Maflangano. 



LUCAN, in Biography, a celebrated Roman poet, was 

 born- at Corduba, in Spain, about the year 39 before the 

 Chriftian era. His father, .-^nnxus Mela, a Roman knight, 



LUC 



was the youngefl brother of Seneca the philofopher ; and 

 his mother, Acilia, was daughter of Acilius Lucanus, an 

 eminent orator. Lucan was brought to Rome during the 

 firll months of his infancy, and was committed, at a very 

 early age, to the care of the ableft mailers in grammar and 

 rhetoric. He fludicd philofophy under the lloic Cornutus, 

 from whom he derived the lofty and free drain of fentiment 

 by which he is fo much dillinguifhed. It is faid lie com- 

 pleted his education at Athens. Seneca, then tutor to the 

 emperor Nero, ol)tained for him the office of qucllor : he 

 was foon after admitted to the college of augurs, and con- 

 fidercd to be in the full career of honour and opulence. He 

 gave proofs of poetical talents at a very early age, and ac- 

 quired reputation by feveral compofitions ; a circumllance 

 that excited the jealoufy of the emperor, who valued him- 

 felf on his powers as a poet and mufician. Lucan even ven- 

 tured to recite one of his own pieces, in competition with 

 Nero ; and, to the furprife of every one, the judges decided 

 in favour of Lncan. From this period Nero regarded the 

 poet with all the malignity of a vanquifhed rival, and made 

 ufe of his power in forbidding him a-gain to repeat any of his 

 verfes in public. In the confpiracy againil the tyrannical 

 emperor, Lucan took a part : the plot was difcovered, and 

 he was apprehended among the other confpirators. Tacitus 

 and other authors have accufed him of the pufdlanimity of 

 endeavouring to free himielf from pumlhiiient, by accuting 

 his own mother, and involving her in the crime of which he 

 was guilty. Mr. Hayley has endeavoured to refcue his 

 name from fo terrible a charge, by obferving and com^ 

 menting on the fail, that the mother of Lucan was palled 

 over without punidiment : hence he inferred, that no evi- 

 dence exided of her having been charged by her fon, but 

 popular rumour ; becaufe it is well known that no other 

 perlon, however didantly implicated in the confpiracy, 

 efcaped without fome kind of penalty. At any rate, his 

 confedions were of no avail, and his mind recovered its firm- 

 nefs for the concluding fcene. No favour was granted him 

 but the choice of the death he would die ; and he chofe the 

 fame which had terminated the life of his uncle Seneca. His 

 veins were accordingly opened ; and when he found himielf 

 growing cold and faint through lofs of blood, he repeated 

 fome of his own lines, dcfcribing a wounded loldier finking 

 in a I'lmilar manner: thefe were the lall words which he ut- 

 tered. He died in the year 65, and in the 27th year of his 

 age. Of the various poems of Lucan, none but his Phar- 

 laiia remain, which is an account of the civil wars between 

 Citlar and Pompey, but is come down to us in an unfinilhed 

 Hate. ' Its title to the name of an epic poem has been dil- 

 puted by thofe critics, who, from the examples of Homer 

 and Virgi!, have maintained that machinery, or the inter- 

 vention of fupernatural agency, is effential to that fpecics of 

 compolition. As to the merits of the poetry itfelf there are 

 various opinions. Lucan certainly pofledes neither the tire 

 of Hoiner, nor the n-.elodious numbers of Virgil. If he 

 had lived to a maturer age, his judgment as well as his 

 genius would liavt been improved, and he might have claimed 

 a more exalted rank among the poets of the Augudan age. 

 His expreffions, however, are bold and animated ; his 

 poetry entertaining ; and it has been aderted that he was 

 never perufed without the warmed emotions, by any whole 

 minds were in unilon with his own. The bell edition of the 

 Pharfaha is the Variorum, Leyd. B. 8vo., 1669. The edi- 

 tionsby Oudcndorp, 1738 ; by Burman, 1740; by Bent ey, 

 1760; and by Barboii, 1767, are in good edeem. The 

 Phartaha has been trandated into Engliih verfe by Mr. 

 Nicholas Rowe. There was no Delphin edition of this 



poem, 



