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tiimfelf at the head of liis own troops, and marched againll the ftcond and third of the name of Lucius. The former, 

 the Capitol, where the fcnate was llttlng. His forces were as he afccnd.-d in batile array to affault the Capitol, was 

 dL'feated and hia.fclf wounded with a (lone, which tcrmi- (truck on the temple by a (lone, and expired in a fe'.v dayf. 

 nated his hfe in a few days, after a pontificate of about The latter was feverely wounded in the perfons of his fcr- 

 eleven or twelve months. Some of his letters are extant vants. In a civil commotion feveral of his priefts had been 

 in the loth vol. of the 0)lled. Concil. ; and two in the made prifoners, and the inhuman Romans, referving one as a 

 fecond vol. of Caluze's Mifcel. guide for his brethren, put out tlicir eyes, crowned them 



Lucius II I, pope, a native of Lucca, was educated to witli ludicrous mitres, mounted them on adi-s with their 

 the chvu-ch, and af:er varicjus degrees of preferment, he was faces to the tail, and extorted an oath, that in this wretched 

 created cardinal by Iimocent II. Cy Adrian IV. he was condition they fiiould ofi'er themfelves a> a lefTon to the head 

 font k;^.ite into Sicily ; after this pope Alexander III. ap- of the church." Bower. Moreri. Gibbon, vol xii. 

 pointed him legate to the emperor Barbaroffa, and on the Lucius, \n Ichthyology, a fpecies of Efox ; which fee. 

 death of Alexander in il8[, he was raifed to the holy fee. Lutiu.s Marlnus, the Sea-pike, a name given by fome au- 

 He was tlie iirft pope who was cledted by the carJina's thors to the fiili more ufually called the inerlucius, and ia 

 a'one, to the cxchilion of the people and clergy, who had Englifli the hnhc. See Gadu.s. 



hitherto taken a part in the choice of a new pope. To- Lucius Marlnus is alfo ufed by many authors for the 

 wards the clofe of the year 1182, a quarrel took p'ace fuilis, calhA z[(o hy iomQ fphyr^na.' 



between the pope and the Romans, owing to his refutd to Luciu.s Tcinjlru, the Land-pike, in Zoology, the name of 

 comply with fome culloms which had been obfc-rved by all a very lingular Ipccies of American lizard, wliich has the 

 his predeceffors. The people broke out into infurieftion, fliape, fcales, &c. of the pike-filh ; ia the place of the fins 

 and drove him out of the city, purfuing him from one of that fifh it has four legs, but thefc are fo weak and 

 Urong hold to another, till he retired for fafety to Verona, flender that it makes no ule of them in walking, but crawls 

 At firft he was ably kipported by the emperor, who ordered along upon the ground in the manner of a fnake, and draws 

 Chriltian, archbifhop of Mentz, to march in his defence at its legs after it ; it grows to about fifteen inches Ion"-, with 

 the head of a powerful army. This prelate footi reduced a proportionable thicknefs ; it is all over covered with fmall, 

 all the llrong holds in the neighbourhood of Ro.me, and fo ilrong, and gloffy fcales, of a filver grey. In the night they 

 haraffed the Romans, that they were ready_ to receive the retire into holes and caverns, and make a very difagreeable 

 pope on his own terms, when the death ct Chrillian pro. and loud noife, much louder than the croaking of frogs. They 

 duced a fudden alteration in th; flate of affairs ; and the feldom llir out of their holes, unlefs in the diilk of the- 

 Romans, feeling their power, became more determined than evening; and if they are ever met with in the day-time^ 

 ever in their oppofition. Lucius fent nuncios to all Chrif- their llrange motion furprifes all who fee them, 

 tian princes and billiops to gather contributions; large fums LUCKAMPOUR, in Geography, a town of Bengal ; 

 were gained which he fpent in bribing the leaders of the 70 miles N.W. of Midnapour. 



oppofing parties, and then ventured to return to Rome. LUCKAU, or LuccA, a town of Lower Lufatia, in a 

 A fecond infurreftion drove his holinefs to Anagni, whence circle of the fame name, on the river Preile, containing four 

 he went into Lombardy, to implore the proteftion of the churches, a Latin fchool, and an hofpital ; 49 miles N. of 

 emperor, who was at that time on his march into Italy, for Drefdcn. N. lat. 51" Ji'. E. long. 13 40'. 

 the purpofe of holding a council at Verona. In 1184 the LUC KENS, a town of Swede-), in the province of Dron- 

 council was opened, and the pope preferred his complaints theiin ; 2; miles S.S.W. of Drontheim. 

 againft the Romans, painting, in the ilrongell colours, die LUCKENWALDE, a town and principal place of a 

 enormities wliich they had perpetrated ; and they were, with- circle, in the duchy of Magdeburg ; 50 miles E. of Magde- 

 out helitation, declared enemies of the church. To this burg. N. lat. 52 6'. E. long, l^j 3'. 



council is to be tr.aced the origin of the inquifition againll LUCKERCOOT, a town of Hmdoollan, in Guzerat ■„ 

 heretics. For not only were the Albigenl'es condemned 30 miles E. of Godra. 



and anathematifed anew, under different names, but all who LUCKIA, a town of Hindootlan, in Oude ; 40 miles 

 fhould admit them into their houfes, fuffer them in their N.E. of Gooracpour. 



territories, or afford them any fort of relief Under the LUCKIDAUR, a town of Bootan ; 40 miles N. of 

 fame fentence were included all thofe who held or taught Beyhar, 46 geographical miles in horizontal dillance from 

 different doctrines from thofe held and taught by the Ro- Taffafudon. N. lat. 26 56'. 



man church. Some grounds of difpute arofe between the LUCKIGATCHY, a town of Bengal ; lomileaN.E- 

 emperor and the pope, as well with refpcA to the rcinllate- of Kifhenagur. 

 ment of certain billiops who had been fufpcnded ; as alfo LUCKINPOUR, a town of Hindonffan, in the circar 



on account of the pope's refiifal to crown the emperor's of Cicacole ; 24 miles N. of Cicacole Alfo, a town o£ 



fan Henry, and to give him the title of emperor.^ The Hindoollan, m Surgooja ; 10 miles S.W. of Surgooja. 



pope, however, was not willing to proceed to a direft rap- 

 ture with the emperor, and the bulinefs in difpute was fuf- 

 pended. In 11 S4, we find Lucius preffing, with great 

 earneftnefs, the Chrillian princes to fend powerful fuccours 

 to the alTiftance of their friends and brethren in the Holy 

 Land. While he was prom<)ti.=ig, to the utmofl of his power, 

 a new crufade, he died at Verona in November 1184, after 

 a pontificate of little more than four years. He is com- 

 mended for prudence, piety, and unblemifhed manners. 



LUCKIPOUR, a town of Bengal ; 40 miles S E. of 

 Calcutta Alfo, a town of Bootan ; 55 miks S. of Taf- 

 fafudon. — Alfo, a town of Hindoolfan, in Bengal; 35 

 miles S.S.W. of Comillah. — Alfo, an ifland in the mouth ut 

 the river Ganges, about nine miles long and two broad. N. 

 lat. 22' 27'. E. long. 90' 48'. — Alfo, a town of Bengal, 

 on an ifland of the fame name ; 50 miles S^ of Dacca. 



LUCKMIPOUR, a town of Hindoolbn, in Bahar ; 30 

 miles E. of Bahar. — Alfo, a to,vn of Beng&l ; 32 mile9 



Two of the " Letters," and a " Decree" of this pope's, are 



to be found in the loth vol. of the Collea. Concil. Mr. ^-^ ^- "' Curruckpour. 



Gibbon, fpeakiiig of the 2d and 3d Lucius, fays, "lean- LUCKNADANG, a town of Goondwana ; 88 miles 



not forget the fu.Terings of two poiuifTs of the fame age, N, of Nagpour. 



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