LUC 



in his own name. The emperor, amazed at lus intrepidity, 

 defired them to be returned to the bifliop, in ord'jr thut he 

 might have an opportunity to acknowledge or tu difavow 

 them. The preintc avowed hinifiU' the author, and know- 

 ing the probable confequtnces, laid lie was ready to fuffer 

 death in defence of what he had written and done. Alha- 

 nafius fc-nt him a letter of thanks for the fervice which he 

 had performed for the Catholic canfc, and recjuelling a copy 

 of his works, which he either tranllatcd hlnih-lf, or caufed 

 to be tranihited from the Latin into Greek. On the death 

 of Conrtantins, I.ncifer recovered his liberty and came to 

 Antioch, v.'here the Catholics were divided into two parties. 

 Lucifer widened the breach already made, by joining \ itli 

 the opponents of the bilhop of Mlktns, who, tlfnigh a 

 Catholic, was ordained by billiops fiifpecled of Arianilni, 

 and had communicated with them, and ordiiined a Prolbyter 

 amon"- the mal contents to the epifcopal ofllee. This ftcp 

 was condemned by his friond, and formerly fellow fnn"erer 

 Eufebius, who had been fint to Antioch by tlie fynod of 

 Alexandria, witli the view of re-eilablilhing the peace of the 

 church. But Lucifer determined to maintain what he had 

 done, and withdrew from the communion of Eufebius, and 

 he formed a party, called after himfelf Luciferians, who 

 refolved to avoid all commerce or fellowdiip with thofe 

 bhhops who had declared themfelves in favour of the Arians. 

 With this refolution he went into Sardinia, and thereby pro- 

 duced a fchifm in the church, which at firll fpread widely, 

 but did not obtain numerous adherents, and does not ap- 

 pear to have out-lived the century. Lucifer died about tiie 

 year 370. His works are written in a harfh and barbarous 

 ftyle. According to Lardner, they conlill very mucli of 

 palTages of the Old and New Teilament, cited one after 

 another, which he quotes with marks of the greateft refped. 

 He farther adds, that the works of this prelate have not yet 

 been publillied with all the advantage that might be wilhed. 

 The titles of thefe works are " Ad Conllantimim Impcra- 

 torem, lib ii. ;" " De Regibus Apollatieis ;" " De non 



conveiiiendo cum Heretic 



■ De non parcendo Dehn- 



quentibus in Deum ;" " Quod moriendum fit pro Filio 

 Dei ;' and " Epillola brevis ad Florentium." They were 

 eollecfed together, and publiflicd at Paris by John Till, 

 bilhop of Meaux, in 1568. Gen. Biog. Larduer, vol.iv. 

 edit. 1788. Moreri. 



LUCIFERA, in Mylhoh^, a furname given to Diana, 

 under which title fhe was invoked by the Greeks in child- 

 bed. She was reprefented as covered with a large veil, in- 

 terfperfed with Itars, bearing a crefcent on her head, and 

 holding in he" hand a lighted flambeau. 



LUCIFERIANS, a religious fed, who adhered to the 

 fchifm of Lucifer, bifhop of Cagliari, in the fourth century, 

 who was banifhed by the emperor Conftantius, for having 

 defended the Nic^ne doftrine concerning the three perfons 

 in the Godhead. 



St. AiiguHine feems to intimate, that they beheved the 

 foul, which th-y confidered as of a carnal nature, to be 

 tranfmitted to the children from their fathers. Theodoret 

 fays, that Lucifer was the author of a new error. The 

 Luciferians increafed mightily in Gaul, Spain, Egypt, &c. 

 The oceafion of the fchifm was, that Lucifer would not 

 allow any ads he had done to be aboliflied. There were 

 but two Luciferian bilhops, but a great number of priells 

 and deacons. The Luciferians bore a peculiar averfioii to 

 the Ari.ms. 



LUCILIUS, C.MU.?, in B'wgraphy, a Roman poet, was 

 born at Suefia, in the country of ihe Aurunci, about the 

 year 148 B.C. He was of a good family, and in tlie 

 Numantinc war bore erms under Scipio Af.'icanus the 



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younger, with whom, and his friend Lslius, he lived in terms, 

 of frienddiip. He is looked upon as the founder of latire, 

 and as the firll conhderable writer of fatires among the 

 Romans. From Horace, who refers to them feveral times 

 in liis own fatires, it appears tliat he imitated the old Greek 

 comedians in marking out by his cenfure individuals noto- 

 rious for their vices, even thofe of the very hig!iell ranlc- 

 Tiiough fupcrior to his poetical predecedbrs at Rome, and 

 though he wrote with great roughnefs and inelegance, he 

 gained many admirers. By Horace he is compared to a 

 river which rolls upon its waters precious faiid, accompanied 

 with mire and dirt. Of his tliirty books of verfes only a 

 few fcattered fragments arc come down to modern times. 

 He died at Naples about tlie year B.C. 105. His frag- 

 ments have been colleded and publilhed, with notes by 

 Francis Douza, in quirto. 'i'liey are alio given in Mat- 

 taire's "Corpus Poetarum." 



LUCINxA, oi lux, lii^ht, in I\IythoIogy, a deity who pre- 

 fided over the labour of women and the birth of children. 

 This title is foir.etimes given to Diana, but moll commonly 

 to .luno. 



LUCIO, St., in Geography, a town of Etruria ; 14 miles 

 E.S.E. of IjCghorn. 



LUCIOPERCA, in hhlhyoh^y, a fpecies of Pcrca; 

 which fee. 



LUCIPARA, or Ll'SII'AUA, in Geography, a fmal! bar- 

 ren ifland in the Ealt Indian fea, near the S. coall of the 

 illnnd of Banca. S. lat. .?^ 14'. E. long. 106 20'. 



LUCrrO, a town of Naples, in the county of Mchfe ; 

 1 1 miles N E. of Molife. 



LUCIUS I., pope, in B'logvnphy, fucceejed to the high 

 dignity upon the death of Cornelius in the year 252, and 

 after a Ihort pontificate he is fiippofed to liave died in 

 March 253. He was baniihed Rome im.nediately after his 

 ordination, under the reign of Gailiis ; but he foon refurned 

 to the great joy of his flock, who crowded to meet him. 

 St. Cyprian wrote him a letter of congratulation, in which 

 he obferves, that he was periiaps recalled to be immolated 

 in the iight of his flock, that they might be encouraged and 

 animated by his Chriflian conllancy and refolution. Cy- 

 prian in another place calls him a martyr, neverthelefs we 

 have no account of the manner of his death, and hence it 

 has been thcnight that the cxpivfiion made ufe of by this 

 father is not to be underdood llric^ly and lileraliy. 



Lucius II. pope, raifed to that dignity on the death of 

 Celelline II. in 1 144, was a native of Bologna, who em- 

 braced the ccclefiaflical life among the canons of St. Au- 

 gulline. In 112J he was created a cardinal, and appointed 

 librarian of the Roman church. After this he was nomi- 

 nated the chancellor, and twice was fent papal legate into 

 Germany. A fhort tiir.e before the death of Innocent II. 

 the Romans threw off the papal yoke in temporal matters, 

 relloring the fenate, and creating their own magiilrates, to 

 wiiom they would yield obedience. In this attempt to 

 recover their ancient liberties, they perfil'ed after the elec- 

 tion of Lucius, whom they acknowledged for lawful pope, 

 but would not ovrn him for their fovtreign. They con- 

 tended that it was inconfillent with the profeflion of the 

 clergy, that they fliould poffefs lordfhips, ellatcs, and tem- 

 poral dominion, and that they ouglit to content themfelves 

 with fuch decent fublillence as they might derive from 

 voluntary tythcs and oblation?. To Lucius, as their bilhop, 

 they paid all due refpedt ; but foon after his election, ilu-y 

 veiled the patrician dignity in one of their own body, ai:d 

 fubmittcd to him as their prince. Lucius took every me- 

 thod to oppofe their plans ; he fought alfillance from Con- 

 rad, king of Germany, and when he was rcfufed, he put 



himfelf 



