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in the Campus Martins, but their offers were rejefted, 

 and he was privately buried by his brother at Tufcuhim. 

 Luculhis has been admired for his many accomphfiiments, but 

 he has been ceiifured for his feverity and extruvagance. The 

 expences of liis table were immoderate ; liis halls were dif- 

 tinguifhed by the different names of the gods, and when 

 Cicero and Pompey attempted to furprife liim, they were 

 aftoniihed at the coftlinefs of a fuppcr which had been pre- 

 pared upon the word of I,ucullus, who had merely faid to 

 his fcrvant that he %vould fup in the hall Apollo, In his re- 

 tirement I^ucullus was fond of artificial variety ; fubterra- 

 neous caves and paffages were dug under the hills on the coail 

 of Campania, and the fea-water was conveyed roimd the 

 houfe and pleafure-grounds, where tht, iiihes flocked in fuch 

 abundance, that at his death they were fold for a very large 

 fum ot money. LucuUus may rank among the great men of 

 E.ome, both for his civil and military qualifications. He was 

 alfo eftimable in many points of moral chaiadler ; he was 

 generous, humane, mild, and equitable. He was a perfect 

 ir.after of the Greek and Latin languages, and employed 

 himfelf feme time in compofing a concife hillory of the 

 Marfi in Greek hexameters. Such are the charafteriftics of 

 a man who meditated the conqueil of Parthia, and who 

 mijrht have difputed the empire of the world with a Csfar 

 «r Pompey, if his fondnefs for retirement had not withdrawn 

 him from the reach of ambition. 



LUCUMA, in Botany, the Peruvian name of the Lin- 

 jisean Achras tpammaja, which Juffieu has feparated, under 

 this appellatioB, as a dillincl genus ; chiefly, as it appears, 

 on account of the flowers being pentandrous and five-cleft, 

 and the corolla globofe rather than bell-(haped. The feeds 

 .moreover are round or angular, not of that eUiptical com- 

 preflcd form, with the peculiar long fear of attachment, 

 which charafteriz.es Ach>-as ; fee that article. See alfo 

 JulT. 152, ^w^SapQla Achras, G^rtn. t. 104. 



LUCY-LE-Bois, in Geo^-aphy, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Yonne, and chief p'ace of a canton, in 

 the diftrift of Avallon. The place contains 830, and the 

 canton 7886 inhabitant;?, on a territory of 242^ kiliometres, 

 in 16 communes. 



LUCZAY, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 

 WiV-a; 16 miles S. of Breflaw. 



L/UCZYNCZ, a town of Pi land, in the palatinate of 

 Brac'aw ; 48 miles W.S.W. of Braclaw. 



LUDAIA, a town and dillrift of the ifland of Java, near 

 the S. coaft. 



I.UDAMAR, a Moorifh country of Africa, bounded 

 on the N. by the Great Delert, on the E. by Bambarra and 

 Beeroa, on the S. by Kaarta, and on the W. by Jaffnoo. 

 It is governed by a Mahometan prince. The country is not 

 fertile; the principal article of '..rade is fait, which they pro- 

 • cure from the Great Defert, and exchange for flaves, to be 

 difpofed of to the Europeans. The capital is Benowm, or 

 Bcnown. N. lat. 15 to 16-. W. long. 5^ to 8^ The 

 Moors of this, and the other ilate.-f adjoining the country of 

 the negroes, refemble in their perfons the Mulattoes of the 

 Weft Indies, to fo great a degree as not eafily to be dif- 

 tinguifhed from them ; and in reality, the prefent generation 

 feems to be a mixed race between the Moors (properly fo 

 called) of the north, and the Africans of the fouth ; pof- 

 feffing many of the wortl qualities of both nations. By 

 thefe Moors Mr. Park was taken captive, and confined for 

 fome weeks at Benowm. See Moors. 



LUDDINGHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the 

 fcifhopric of Manlier, on the Stever ; 12 miles S.^tW. of 

 Munfter. N. lat. 51" 4c'. E. long, ■i'-' 36'. 



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LUDE, Le, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Sarthe, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriftof La 

 Fleche. The place contains 3018, and the canton 1 0,3 76 in- 

 habitants, on a territory of 2375 kiliometres, in 10 com- 

 munes. 



LUDENSCHEDE, a town of Germany, in the county 

 of Mark, the principal trade of which confifts in the manu- 

 fadure of iron ; 28 miles N.E. of Cologne. N. lat. 51^ 

 8'. E. long. 7 - 42'. , •* 



LUDER, a to)vn of Germany, in the bifhopric of Fulda, 

 the feat of a jurifdiclion ; fi.K miles W.N.W. of Fulda. 



LUDGERSHALL, or Lucgeh.shai,I,, a market and 

 borough town in the hundred of Amefbury and county of 

 Wilts, England. In the year i8co this place contained 

 109 houfes, and 47 1 inhabitants, mod of whom are employed 

 in agricultural purfuits. Ludgerfhall is a borough by pre- 

 fcription, and fent members to all the parliaments in the reign 

 of Edward I. The returns were afterwards irregular, till 

 the ninth year of Henry V., fince which time it has con- 

 tinued to be reprefented by two members. Like the gene- 

 rality of fmall boroughs, this has occafioned fome parlia- 

 mentary inveiligation, and inft^ances of bribery and corruption 

 have been proved againll its members. About feventv per- 

 fons, who are freeholders, or leafe-holders, in the borough, 

 have the privilege of voting. The principal objedl of cu- 

 riofity, or hiltorical intereft, in this town, is its caftle ; a 

 fmall fragment of which only remains. According to a le- 

 gendary account, but which is not entitled to much credit, 

 this fortrefs was erected by king Lud, and thence obtained 

 the name of Lud-gars-hall. Stow, in his Annals, relates that 

 Richard I. gave this caftle, with another at Marlborough, in 

 the fame county, to his brother John, in the firft year of his 

 reign. Gough, m his additions to Camden's Britannia, 

 ftatcs that it belonged to " Geofrey Fitz-Piers, the wealthy 

 chief-jurtice of England, and earl of EflTex." It was pof- 

 feffed by this family till the reign of Henry III., when Jol- 

 Ian de Nevill was appointed its governor. In the reign of 

 Edward III. the manor,^caIllc, &c. were veiled in John, 

 lord Molins, who obtained a grant from that monarch to 

 impark the woods with 1 00 acres adjoining. See Grofe's 

 Antiquities of England, and Britton's Beauties of Wilt- 

 lliire, vol. ii. p. 156, Sic. Weft of this town is Chid- 

 bury, or Shidbury hill, faid to be the higheft eminence in 

 Sahfbury plain. Its fummit is inclofed with an entrench- 

 ment, which is deep, and which Aubrey attributes to the 

 Britons. From the top, a ditch extends down the northern 

 flope, and terminates at the bottom, where the inequahty of 

 the ground Ihews that a permanent encampment, or town 

 formerly exifted. The open downs in this part of the 

 county abound with barrows, or tumuli of various fizes, 

 and encampments. See Stukeley's Account of Stonehenge, 

 and Hoare's Ancient Wiltftiire. 



LUDHANA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 

 Sirhind, on the Setledge ; 1 8 miles N.W. of Sirhind. N. 

 lat. 30' 2'. E. long. 74- 57^ . 



LUDHOA, a town of Sweden, ia Eaft Bothnia; 3$ 

 miles S.E. of Braheftad. 



LUDI CiRCENSEs. See Circen.ses; 



LuDl Oereales. See Cereales. 



LuDI Florahs. See Florales. 



LuDi Juvmiks. See December. 



IjUniTrojivis. See Tkojani. 



LUD I A, in Botany, from luJo, to fport. The name 

 was given by Commcrlon, as Juffieu informs us, becaufe na- 

 ture, to ufe a common exprelfion, /forts remarkably in the 

 fliape of the leaves ; which in the young {hrnb are minute, 

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