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b'-pn compared to Solon, the legidator of Athens, and it I.YDD, in Geography, a fmall market-town in the hun- 



has been faid that the former gave his citizens morals con- dred of Langport, in the lathe of Sliepway, and county of 



forniable to the laws which he had eftablilhed, and that the Kent, England, occupies a low fcite near the fouth-weftem 



latter had given the Athenians laws which coincided with extremity of the county, where a point of land running out 



their cuftonis and manners. The office of Lycurgus de- into the fea forms Dengenefs bay, which, tho\igh very open, 



nianded refalution, and he (hewed himfclf inexorable and is of great fervice for veflels when the wind fets violently 



fevere. The Lacedemonians (hewed their relpedl for this from particular quarters. Leland fays, " Lvdde is counted 



great legidatur by ar.njally celebrating a feftival in liis ho- as a part of Rumeney, is iii mylcs beyond Rumeney town, 



nour, al which his praifes were recited, and which wa^ ob- and is a market. The town is of a prety quantite, and the 



ferved during feverai ages. It is not agreed in wliat mafiner, townefch men ufe botes to the fe, the which at this tyme is a 



or when he died ; according to Plutarch he voluntarily put myle of. The hole town is conteyned in one paroche, but 



an end to his life by abllinence, whilj he was yet of an age that is very large. Ther is a place beyond Lydde, wher 



to enjoy it. Lucian fays he died at the age of eighty-five, at a great numbre of holme trees grouelh upon a banke of 



The laws uf Lycurgui v/ere abrogated by Philcpccmen in baches throwcn up by the fe : and ther they bat fowle, and 



th- year B C. i8S, but the Romans very foon rc-cllabli(hed kill many birdes." The church, which is a (pacious edifice, 



them. Plutarch. Univer. Hift. confill of a nave, chancel, and aifles, with a maffive tower, 



LvcuRGU.s, an Athenian orator, fon of Lycophron, ornamented with pinnacles at the weft end. The monuments 



floi-.rirncd in the time of Phihp of Macedon, and is fuppofcd are numerous^ and among them are many brafles, chiefly for 



to have died about j;he year 328 before Cliriih He ftudied baiHffs and jurats of the town. Lydd is a corporate town 



ttriiftell integrity. He was appointed one of the magif- 

 trates, and in exercii'ing the duties of his fituation, he ba- 

 nillied all perfons of a dilToUite character, and made a num- 

 ber ot very ufeful regulations. As he thought the higher 

 kinds of poetry pofleiied luperior advantages, he patronized 

 dramatic exhibitioi'S, and caufed ftatues to be erected in 

 honour of the principal tragedians. He was the friend of 

 Demolthene^,- and a zealous advocate for liberty : when 

 Xeiiocrates was dragged to prifon becaufe he had not paid 



ants 1303. The latter are chiefly engaged in fiihing, and 

 other maritime employments, of which fmuggling is cod- 

 fidered as forming a material bra.ich. Lydd is 71 miles 

 diftant from London ; has a fmall market on Thurfdays, and 

 an annual fair. The holm trees, or fea hollies, mentioned 

 by Leland, dill grow on the beach near the town. 



On the point of land called Dengenefs, is a light-houfe, 

 1 1 o ieet high, creeled a; few years ago, in place of a more 

 ancient one, under iT-e direftion of Mr. Jame.s Wyatt, and 



the tribute exacted from ftrangers, he liberated him and partly oa the model of the Eddyftone light-houfe. This 

 confined the farmer of the tax in his (lead. Lycurgus was point is alfo defended by a fort, and feverai ranges of bar- 

 one of the thirty orators whom the Athenians refufed to racks have been erefted in the vicinity. Beauties of Eno. 

 deliver up to .Alexander. Some of his orations are preferved, land and Wales, vol. viii. ° 



and have been printed in Colledions of the Greek Orators. LYDDA, in ^ndtrnl Gfofra/^v, a townxif Jud^a, in the 



Piutarch. Lempriere. tribe of Ephraim ; which was oiTe of the three towns that 



LYCUS, in jinciait Geography, a river of Sarmatia, Demetrius, king of Syria,, compelled the Samaritans to fur- 

 S-W. of Rhodus, which d'.lcharged i?felf into the Enxine render to the Jews ;^ it was alTo called Dio.fpol's. 

 fea. It is mentioned by Ovi-. — Alfo, a river, which, ac- 

 cording to Herodotus, took its ri!e in the country inha- 

 bited by the ThyfTsgetas, and traverfuig that of ihe Mre- 

 otK, ran into the Pahis Msotis. Ptolemy mentions this 

 river, which is fuppofed to be the fa !ie with the preceding. 

 — Alfo, a river of Afia7 in Phrygia. — Alfo, a nver of 

 Afui Mmor, in Caria, the fource of which was in mount 



Cadmus, and it formed a lake in Latmicus Sinus. — Alfo, 

 a river in Sicily, the fame with Halycus. — Alfo, a river of 



LYDGATE, .Tohk, in Biography, an early Englifh 

 verfilier, and a monk of the Bcuedidtine abbey at St. Ed- 

 mund's Bury, in the reign of Henry VI. He was edu- 

 cated partly at Oxford, and then travelled into foreign coun- 

 tries to acquire the learning of the times. He was the dif- 

 ciple and friend of Chaucer, and was rogardtjd as a prodigy 

 of learning at the period in which he floiirifhcd, and is faid 

 to have been a good poet and rhetorici.w, geometrician, aflro- 

 nomer, and theologian. He opened a fchool in his monaflerj" 



Macedonia, mentioned by.Plurarch. — .'.Ifo, a river of Afia for teaching the fons of the nobility the arts of vcrflfication 



Minor, in Myfia, in the canton of Pergamus.- Alfo, a and compofition. He was an imitator of his mailer Chaucer, 



river of Alia, which proceeding from Armenia, watered but is reckoned among thofe who contributed to the ira- 



the plain near the town of Heraclea, and difcharged. itfclf provement of the Enfflifn lr.ngu.ige. His principal pieces 



into the Iris. — Alio, a river of Alia, in Bitlivnia, the fame are "The Fall of Princes," from the French of Boccaccio; 



with Rhyndacus, accordin,^ to Fhny Alio, a nver of «' The Story of Thebes," chiefly from Guido Colonna ; and 



Alia, in Pontus, which mixed its waters with thofe of the "The Troy Boke," or " Deftrudtion of Troy." Bcfidcs 



Iris. — Alfo, a river of Afia, in Cappadocia, according to thefe, a lift has been given of his other pieces, amounting to 



Ptolemy, who fays that it was one of the branches of the 25.1, exifting in MS. in different hbraiies. 



Abforrus which fell into the Euxine fea. — Alfo, a river of LYDIA, in Aiuieni Geography, firll called M^eonia, from 



Alia, in AfTyria, according to Polybius and Ptolemy. — Meon, king of Phrygia ai.d Lydi.i, and afterwards Lydia, 



Aifo, a river of Afia, in Syria, near the gulf of Iffus, ac- from Lydus, the fon of Atyp, one of its kin<'S. Bochart, 



cording to Plin)-. — Alfo, a fmall river of the ifle of Cyprus, who denies the exitlence of fi;ch perfons as Meon and Lydus, 



which had its fource in the interior of the ifland at mount derives the name Lydia from the Phcenitian word /us, to 



Olympus, and difcharged itfelf into the fea to the weft of wind, becaufe it lay on the banks of the I^arandcr, a river 



Amathus.— Alfo, a river of Phccnicia, which ran between famousfor its windings, and Mseonia, from a Greek tranflatioD 



Byblos and Boryta, according to the Itinerary of An- of the Piiocnician word luJ. Lydia and Msonia are fome- 



tomne. times ditlinguiilKd ; that part where mount Tmolus ilood, 



watc: ei 



