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middle of the fixth century. This country was divided 
into feveral (fates, fuoject to the houfe of Aultria, the 
republic of Venice, and the king of Sardinia: fuch as the 
duchies of Milan and Mantua, called Austrian Lombardy 5 
—the Paduan, Veronefe, Vicentin, B reflan, Comafco, and 
Bergamafco, belonging to Venice;—Montferrat and Nice, 
annexed to Piedmont, fubjevd to the king of Sardinia;— 
tCgcuicr with many others, as the duchies of Modena, 
Reggio, Parma, Piacenza, Mirandola, and feveral fmaller 
principalities and (fates. The vicifiitudes whicn Lom¬ 
bardy has undergone, and more efpecially thole which 
have occurred to it iince the French revolution, are Oneny 
detailed under Cisalpine Republic, vol. iv. Hetru- 
ria, vol. ix. and Italy, vol. xi. p. 464., 5. 
LOM'BERS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Tarn: nine miles fouth of Alby. 
LOM'BES, a town of France, and feat of a tribunal, in 
the department of the Gers; before the revolution the lee 
of a bifliop: ten miles fouth-weft of i’lfle en Jourdain, and 
fixteen fouth-eaft of Auch. 
LOM'BOK, an ifland in the Saltern Indian Sea, about 
forty miles from north to fouth, and from eighteen to 
thirty broad, chiefly inhabited by Gentoos. Between 
this ifland and Cumbava is a paffage, called the Straits of 
Lombok. Lat. 8. 30. S. Ion. 116.E. 
LOM'BOK, a town on the ealt coaft of the ifland fo 
called. Lat. 8.42. S. Ion. 116.2. E. 
LOMBUZ'SKOI, a fmall ifland in the Frozen Ocean, 
near the coalt of RiC.fia: 180 miles eaft of Kola. Lat. 67. 
55. N. Ion 40. 14. E. 
LOM'BY, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic : 
twenty miles north-weft of Tiagar. 
LOME'IR (John), a learned Dutch proteftant divine 
in the feventeenth century, concerning whofe life we have 
feen no other particulars, than that lie was paftor of the 
church of Dotekum, in Zutphen. He was the author of 
a curious little work, abounding in erudition and clofe 
refearch, in which he has undertaken to give an hiftorical 
and critical notice of the molt celebrated libraries in an¬ 
cient and modern times. It is entitled, De Bibliothecis Liber 
Singulans, 121110. 1669; and is divided into fifteen chap¬ 
ters. The firft is preliminary; and the fubfequent ones 
treat of preferving the memory of events before the time 
of Mofes; of the libraries of the Hebrews; tliofe of the 
Chaldeans, Arabians, Phenicians, Egyptians, Sec. thofe 
of the Greeks and Romans; the libraries of the Chriftians 
before the dark ages; the ftate of libraries during the long 
night of barbarifm ; of libraries after the revival of letters; 
the moft celebrated libraries in Europe; of the libraries in 
various other nations; of particular books in certain col- 
leftions; of the keepers of libraries; of the proper fitua- 
tion, difpofition, and ornaments, of libraries ; and of the 
enemies to libraries. Under tliefe heads the fcholar will 
meet with much interelting and entertaining matter, 
though not clothed in a chafte ftyle, and notwithftanding 
that the author will fometimes be found to have admitted 
fmall private collections into his lilt of important libra¬ 
ries. The author’s plan afterwards gave rife to a larger 
work on the fame fubjeft, by Joachim-John Maderus, a 
learned German, who publilhed at Helmftadt a treatife 
De Bibliothecis, in two volumes 4to. 1702 and 1705, in 
■which he. has inferted our author’s piece. Lomeri De Bibl. 
LOM'ELIN (Adrian), an engraver, was born at Amiens 
in 1637 ; but fturiied his art at Antwerp, where he lived 
till his death. He worked with the graver only, and han¬ 
dled it but indifferently; yet fome of his portraits after 
Vandyke are not without merit, efpecially that of John- 
Bsptifta de Bitthoven, a Jefuit of Antwerp. 
LO'MENT,y. in botany, an oblong feed-veflel, not 
opening longitudinally like a legume, but feparated by 
tranlverfe partitions, and containing a Angle feed in each 
joint. 
LOMENTACE'ZE,yi in botany, the name of the fifty- 
3b; th order in Linnteus’s Fragments; and of the thirty - 
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third in his Natural Orders. See the article Botany, 
vol. iii. p. 297. 
LOMENTA'CEOUS, adj. in botany, belonging to 
planri with jointed feed-veffels. 
LOMENTUM, f. [Latin.] A word ufed by the old 
writers on medicine to exprels a meal made of beans, or 
bread made of this meal, and ufed as a wafli. Others have 
applied it to the French chalk, or morochthus, uied by the 
fcowerers of clothes, which is brought over in large cakes, 
refembling loaves or cakes of bread. 
LOM'GRAD, a town of Bulgaria, at the conflux of 
the Lem and Danube: twenty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Viddin. 
LO'MI, a to-wn of Ruflia, in the government of Irkutlk, 
on the Amul : fixteen miles north of Stretenlk. 
LOM'MATSCH, or Lumtszcii, a town of Saxony, in 
the margravate of Meiifen : feven miles north-weft of 
Meifien,and twenty north-weft of Drefden. Lat.51.11.N0 
Ion. 13, 13.E. 
LOM'MERSUM, a village and citadel of France, in 
the department of the Roer. This place with Kerpen 
formed a county, poffelfed by the count of Scalberg, which 
paid twelve florins for a Roman month. It is nine miles 
weft-norrh-weft of Bonne. 
LOM'MIUS, or Van Lom (Jodocus), a medical writer 
of reputation, was a native of ^>uren in Guelderland. His 
father, who was the town-clerk, caufed him to be carefully 
educated ; and he was mailer of the learned languages 
when he turned his fludies to phyfic. Paris was the ichool 
from which he principally derived his profelflonal know¬ 
ledge. He was peniionary-phyflcian to the city of Tour- 
nay in 1557 ; and fettled at Bruffels in 1560, when he was 
advanced in years. He was living in 156a,beyond w'hich 
time there is no record of him. The works of Lotnmius, 
which are written in a pure, elegant, and clear, llyle, and 
have been much read and efteemed, are the following: 
1. Commentarii de Sanitate Tuenda in primum librum C. 
Celfi ; Lovan, 1558 : this is an ample commentary upon 
Celltis, entirely taken from the ancients, 2. Obferva- 
tionum Medicinaiium Lib. III. Antw. 1560 ; many times 
reprinted and tranllated ; this confills of analytic hi (lories 
of difeafes, with their figns and prognoses, and contains 
much accurate and ufeiul obfervation. 3. De Curandis 
Febribus Continuis ; Antw. 1563; often reprinted and 
tranllated. Hableri Bibl. Med. 
LOM'NITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Ko- 
nigingratz : fix miles north of Gitfchin. 
LOM'NITZ, a river of Silelia, which rifes in the prin¬ 
cipality of Jauer, and runs into the Bober three miles ealt- 
fouth-ealt of Hirfchberg. 
LOM'NITZ, a town of- Moravia, in the circle of 
Brunn : fifteen miles north-north-weft of Brunn. Lat. 
49. 24. N. Ion. 16. 18. E. 
LOM'OND. See Ben Lomond, vol. ii. and Loch Lo¬ 
mond, vol. xii. p. 863. 
LOMOND HILL'S, two beautiful conical hills fituated 
in the county of Fife, Scotland. The Eaftern one is by 
far the moil beautiful, and riles 1650 feet above the level 
of the town of Falkland, which is placed at a fliort dif- 
tance from its bafe. It appears to have been the feat of 
a fort in ancient times. On the very fummit is a fmall 
lake, which has probably been the crater of an extindt 
volcano. On this hill a mine of lead has been lately 
opened, with good profpefl of fuccefs to the proprietors. 
It likewife contains coal and limefto’he in considerable 
abundance; but neither of them are wrought. The other 
hill, which is called Weftern Lomond, from its fit nation 
with refpedi to the former, is much higher, and perhaps 
commands a more extenfive view. On the top is one of 
thofe heaps or tumuli of Hones which are denominated 
cairns. 
LOMON'OZOF, a diftinguifhed perfon in the fcanty 
catalogue of Ruffian literati, and accounted the father of 
Ruffian poetry, was born in 1711, at Kolmogori, where 
