T34 LUC 
the refidence of the Teflioo Lama, and capital of that part 
of the country which is immediately fubjeCt to his autho¬ 
rity ; fituated in lat. 29. 4. 20. N. Ion. 89. 7. E. This is a 
large monaftery, confiding of three or four hundred 
bouf'es, the habitations of the Gylongs, befides temples, 
mau(oleums, and the palace of the fovereign pontiff; in 
which are comprehended alfo the refidence of the regent, 
and the dwellings of all the fubordinate officers, both ec- 
clefiaftical and civil, belonging to the court. It is in¬ 
cluded within the hollow face of a high rock, and has a 
Southern afpeft. Its buildings are all of (tone, none lefs 
than two (lories high, flat-roofed, and covered with a pa¬ 
rapet, riling confiderably above the roof, compofed of 
hta'.h and brnfhwood, inferted between frames of timber, 
which form a ledge below, and are fafhioned above into a 
cornice, capped with mafonry. All the houfes have win¬ 
dows ; that in the centre projecting beyond the walls, and 
forming a balcony : they are not doled with (flutters, but 
black mohair curtains. The principal apartment in the 
upper (lory has an opening over it, covered with a move- 
able fhed, which ferves the purpofe of fometimes admit¬ 
ting light and air, and in the winter feafon occafionally, 
the grateful warmth of the fun. Turner's Tibet. 
LUBUN'GAN, a town on the north coalt of the ifland 
of Mindanao. 
LUB'VVACH, a town of Germany, in the bifliopric of 
Bamberg: eight miles north-eaff of Bamberg. 
LUB'Z, or Lu'eitz, a town of the duchy of Mecklen- 
berg : twenty-three miles fouth-fouth-welt of Gultrow. 
Lat. 53. 30. N. Ion. 12. E. 
LUC, a town of Bavaria, on the Nab : fix miles north 
of Pfreimbt, and twelve eaft-north-ealt of Amberg. 
LUC, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Pyrenees: fix miles north of Oleron, and twelve 
weft of Pau. 
LUC, a town of France, in the department of the Lo- 
zere : five miles fouth of Langogne. 
LUC en DIO'IS, a town of France, in the department 
of the Drome, on the Drome : nine miles fouth of Die. 
LUC (Le), a town of France, in the department of the 
Var : fifteen miles fouth of Draguignan, and twelve eaft 
of Brignolle. 
LUC (St.), the chief town of the captainfliip of Peta- 
gues, in the north divifion of Brafil. 
LU'CA, in ancient geography, a city of Etruria, on the 
river Aufer. Now Lucca. 
LU'CA (John-Baptift de), a learned Neapolitan cardi¬ 
nal, was of humble origin, and born at Venozza, in the 
Bafiiicate, about the year 1617, Having been educated 
to the church, lie obtained preferment by dint of merit, 
and became auditor to pope Innocent XI. By that pon¬ 
tiff he was nominated cardinal in 1681 ; and died within 
eighteen months after his elevation to the purple, about 
the age of lixty-fix. He was the author of, 1. Annota- 
tiones ad Concilium Tridentinum. 2. Relatio Curiae Ro- 
nianae, 4to. 1680, containing a full account of all the 
congregations, tribunals, jurifdiCtions, &c. of that court, 
and much other curious matter. 3. 11 Dottor Volgare; 
treating on feveral legal topics. 4. A Difcourfe in Favour 
of the Italian Language. 5. An immenfe compilation of 
ecclefiaftical law, entitled, Theatrum Juftitia et Veritatis, 
See. in twenty-one volumes folio. Moreri. 
LUCA'LA, a river of Angola, which runs into the 
Coanza at Maffangano. 
LUCA'LA, a town of Angola, on a river of the fame 
name : thirty miles north-north-eaft of Maffangano. 
LU'CAN. Marcus Annteus Lucanus, a celebrated 
Roman poet, was born at Corduba in Spain, about A. D. 
39. His father, Annaeus Mela, a Roman knight, was the 
youngeft brother of Seneca the philofopher. His mother, 
Acilia, was daughter of Acilius Lucanus, an eminent ora¬ 
tor. Lucan was brought to Rome at the age of eight 
months; whence his education could have contributed 
nothing to a provincial impurity of tafte and language 
which fome critics have fancied in him. He was early 
LUC 
committed to the care of the ableft matters In grammar 
and rhetoric; and he ftudied philofophy under the (foie 
Cornutus (alfo the preceptor of Perfius), from whom he 
derived the lofty and free (train of fentiment by which 
he is fo much diltinguiffied. He is fuppofed to have 
completed his education at Athens. His uncle Seneca, 
then tutor to the emperor Nero, brought him into public 
life; and he obtained the office of queitor before lie was of 
the legal age to exercife it. He was admitted to the col¬ 
lege of augurs, and was regarded as one in the favour of 
his prince, and in the full career of honour and opulence. 
His union with Polla Argentaria, the daughter of a Ro¬ 
man fenator, whole merits have been celebrated by the 
two poets Statius and Martial, added domeitic felicity to 
his external profperity. Lucan had at an early age given 
proofs of poetical talents, and had acquired reputation by 
leveral compofitions. This circumftanee excited the jea- 
loufy of Nero, one of whofe paffions was that of being re¬ 
garded as the greateft poet and mufician of his time. 
Greedy of public adulation in this favourite point, he re¬ 
cited before a large affernbly, at the feftival of the Quin- 
quennalia, a piece of his own compofing on the ftory of 
Niobe. Notwithftanding the plaudits with which it was 
received, Lucan, who alfo feems to have felt in no fmall 
degree the love of admiration, ventured to recite a poem 
on the fable of Orpheus, in competition with that of the 
emperor..; and, ftrange to tell, the judges awarded to liitn 
the prize. From this period, Nero looked upon Lucan 
with all the malignity of a vanquiflied rival, and made 
ufe of his power in forbidding him again to repeat any of 
his verfes in public. To this tyrannical mandate, he ad¬ 
ded the infult of ridiculing and depreciating his works. 
When the enormities of this imperial monfter had excited 
a con (piracy againft him of feveral perfons of diltinction, 
with Pifo, at their head, Lucan took part in it. To the 
indignation of an injured author, which Tacitus fuggefts 
as his motive, may furely be added the virtuous and pa¬ 
triotic feelings of an enthufiaft for liberty and his country, 
who could not but execrate a tyrant and oppreflor. Ha 
has, indeed, addreffed fome very adulatory lines to this 
fame tyrant; but they were probably written while he ap¬ 
peared under the ma(k of a benevolent and well-dilpoied 
young prince. The plot was difcovered ; and Lucan was 
apprehended among the other confpirators. It mult mor¬ 
tify every lover of genius and liberal principles to learn 
that he failed in the trial, and incurred a (tain of bafenefs 
which will ever adhere to his name. Tacitus (Annal. 
xv. 55.) exprefsly affirms that, overcome by a promife of 
pardon, he accufed as an accomplice, among others, his 
own mother. This direCt charge from fo weighty an hif- 
torian, who certainly was not inclined to calumniate the 
friends of freedom, can fcarcely be fet alkie by the mere 
furmifes which fome defenders of Lucan have offered. 
The circumftanee mod in his favour, which has been 
forcibly dwelt upon by Mr. Hayley, in the notes to his 
Second Epiftle on Epic Poetry, is that (according to Ta¬ 
citus) the mother of Lucan was paffed over without ei¬ 
ther abfolution or puniftiment; whence it may be con¬ 
jectured that no evidence exilted of her having been 
charged by her fan, but popular rumour; for no other 
perfon, however diftantly implicated in the confpiracy, 
feems to have efcaped without fome kind of penalty. If, 
however, the virtue of I.ucan was betrayed by a moment 
of weaknefs, his mind recovered its fimmefs for the con¬ 
cluding feene. Being ordered to die, he chofe the fame 
death with his uncle Seneca; and had his veins opened. 
When he found himfelf growing cold and faint through 
lofs of blood, he repeated fome of his own lines, defcrib- 
ing a wounded foldier finking in a fimilar manner ; and 
thefe were the lalt words he uttered. He died A.D. 65, 
in the twenty-feventh year of his age. 
Of the various poems, of Lucan, his Pharfalia only has 
come down to modern times. This is an unfinilhed piece, 
relating the caufes and events of the civil war between 
Caefar and Pompey. Its title to the name of an epic poem 
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