710 LUC 
the many members of that extraordinary fociety who have 
honourably diftinguifhed themfelves. He was born at 
Trancofo in 1550, and entered the order in the fifteenth 
year of his age. His talents foon railed him to the rank 
of a profelfor in Cardinal Henrique’s Univerfity of Evora, 
a diftin£fion which Lucena feems to have merited in the 
learned age of his country. He is faid to have been fo 
excellent or fo popular a preacher, that, when he had end¬ 
ed his fertnon, it was not unufual for his auditors, with 
one common and unpremeditated cry, to befeech him to 
proceed. The work which he left behind him is, in his 
own language, Hijloria da Vida do Padre S. Francijco de 
Xavier, e do que Jizeram na India os mais Religiozos da Com- 
pankia de Jefu ; the Hiftory of the Life of St. Francifco 
de Xavier, and of what the other Religious of the Com¬ 
pany of Jefius have done in India. It was publilhed at 
Lifbon in 1600, the year of his death. An Italian verfion 
appeared at Rome in 1613, and a Spanilh one at Seville in 
1619. It was re-edited at Lilbon in 1788, by Bento Joze 
de Souza Farinha, of the Royal Academy, and regius pro¬ 
felfor of philofophy, to whom his countrymen are in¬ 
debted for accurate re-editions of many old and valuable 
works. Lucena’s hiftory ends with the death of Xavier 
in 1552. After the fall of the Portuguefe empire in In¬ 
dia, the villany of the Dutch in Japan, and the folly of 
the Dominicans in China, a work which records the pro- 
grefs of Chriftianity in the eaft is read with diminilhed 
intereft. The ftyle of the book is praifed by thofe who 
can bell appreciate it ; it contains much to edify a catho¬ 
lic, and fome valuable information for more reafonable 
readers. The author was a good man ,mnltis virtutibus doc - 
trinaque merito cams omnibus ac vencrabilis. He died at St. 
Roques, Lilbon, in his fifty-firft year. R. S. in Gen. Biog. 
LUCENAY-les-AI'X, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Nyevre : nine miles fouth of Decize. 
LUCENAY l’EVE'QUE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Saone s leven miles north of Autun, 
and ten weft-fouth-weft of Arnay le Due. Lat. 47. 5.N. 
Ion. 4. 20. E. 
LU'CENT, adj. \lucens, Lat.] Shining; bright; fplendid : 
I meant the day-ftar Ihould not brighter rife. 
Nor lend like influence from his lucent feat. Ben Jonfon. 
LUCEN'TITM, in ancient geography, a town of Spain. 
Now Alicant. 
LU'CERA, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra : feven 
miles fouth of Cofenza. 
LU'CERA, or Lucera delli Paga'ni, a city of 
Naples, and capital of the province of Capitanata ; con¬ 
taining four churches, and nine monafteries; the fee of a 
bilhop, fuflrragan of Benevento. The jurifdiffion of the 
province is held here : it is fmall, but populous, and has 
a manufacture of cloth. It is 62 miles north-eaft ofNa- 
pies, and 130 eaft of Rome. Lat. 41.28. N. Ion. 15. 16. E. 
LU'CERES, f. A body of horfe compofed of Roman 
knights, fir ft eltablifhed by Romulus and Tatius. It re¬ 
ceived its name either from Lucumo, an Etrurian who af- 
,filted the Romans againft the Sabines, or from lucus, a 
grove where Romulus had erected an afylum, or a place 
of refuge for all fugitives, Haves, homicides, See. that he 
might people his city. The Luceres were fome of thefe 
men, and they were incorporated with the legions. Pro¬ 
pertius. 
LUCE'RIUS, in mythology, a name given to Jupiter, 
as Luceria was to Juno, as the deities which gave light 
to the world. 
LUCER'N, f. A kind of artificial grafs. See Me- 
dicago ; and tne article Husbandry, vol. x. p. 554. 
LUCER'NAy a town of France, in the department of 
the Po, late belonging to Piedmont, in the province of 
the Four Valleys, to one of which it gives name : five 
miles fouth-weft ofPinerolo. 
LUCERNA'RIA, f. The Lantern-worm; in hel¬ 
minthology, agenus ot vermes mollufca. Genericcharafters 
•—Body gelatinous, Ihining, wrinkled, branched ; mouth 
LUC 
beneath. There are three fpecies, which inhabit the 
Northern Seas, and live among the fuci and ulvte, gene¬ 
rally adhering firmly to their habitation, and rarely- 
changing their abode ; they feed on polypes, or onifei ; 
the body is commonly headlefs and eyelefs, with granu¬ 
lated tubercles. 
1. Lucernaria quadricornis, the four-horned lantern- 
worm : body long, coiled ; with four forked arms, ten- 
taculate at the tip. This is an animal confifting of a 
lump of gliftening jelly, without head or eyes; it how¬ 
ever protrudes an arm from each of the angles of the 
body, which is furnifhed with from thirty to forty tenta- 
cula, retractile, and employed in catching its prey, which 
it turns into an orifice in the centre of its rnafs of body. 
The tail is flexuous in the middle, and difpofed in nu¬ 
merous plaits and folds, thickened at the bafe and taper¬ 
ing gradually, obtufe at the tip, and extenfile, like the 
tentaculae; mouth white with cinereous ifrisfe, and four¬ 
toothed. This curious worm is fhown in three different 
pofitions at fig. 9, 10, and 11, of the preceding Engraving; 
one of the forked arms at fig. 12. the four-toothed mouth 
at fig. 13. and one of the tentacula with its globular tip 
greatly magnified at fig. 14. 
2. Lucernaria phrygia: body long, papillous, with nu¬ 
merous globeriferous arms deflected into an hemifphere ; 
fixed at the bafe by a byffus, or mafs of filaments. This 
is found in the Greenland Seas at a confiderable depth, 
and feldom changes its abode. The body varies in (hape; 
is about half an inch long, reddifb, with white globules 
and papillae; neck ereCI, exfertile, and befet with nu¬ 
merous exfertile papillae ; arms fhort, (lender, and entan¬ 
gled together. 
3. Lucernaria auricula : refembling an oil-fla(k ; neck 
round, the lower extremities dilated and furrounded with 
eight fafciculi of tentacula. This fpecies is likewife found 
in the Greenland Seas, adhering very firmly to the largeft 
ulvae, from which it rarely moves; feeds on onifei, and 
is about an inch and a half long. Body black or reddilh, 
rarely chefnut-brown with a gold tinge, lubricofe,glabrous, 
the margin furrounded with eight granulate tubercles, re¬ 
fembling fo many fafciculi of tentacula containing about 
fixty in each ; thefe are black tipt with white ; mouth 
white. Gmelin's Lion. Zoo/. Dan. 
LUCERNA'TES, f. in ecclefiaftical hiftory, a term 
ufed by the primitive Chriftians for canticles which they 
fung in their nocturnal aflemblies ; probably from thele 
rites being performed by lamp-light. 
LUCER'NE, a canton of Swiflerland, bounded on the 
eaft by the cantons of Zug and Schwitz, on the fouth by 
the canton of Unterwalden, and elfewliere by the canton 
of Berne; about thirty miles long, and in its greateft 
breadth nearly as much ; efteemed the largeft and the firlt 
in rank among the Catholic cantons, and the third among 
the whole. The foil is fertile, but unequal : fome parts 
are only fit for paftures and the cultivation of fruit, others 
are arable, and produce good corn ; in other parts are 
found molt of the European productions. The wine of 
the country is not fufficient for the confumption of the 
inhabitants; and of this article they purchafe, every year, 
to the amount of 200,000 crowns from France and Baden; 
fait is procured from France and Bavaria. The exporta¬ 
tion of cheele is very confiderable. The ordinary food 
of the hulbandman is potatoes, fruit, legumes, bread, and 
milk. The woodlands are confiderable; game would be 
abundant if there were fewer fportfmen. Chamois, deer, 
hares, black foxes, badgers, and martens, are the princi¬ 
pal wild animals. The fouthern part is mountainous, 
but neverthelefs without glaciers; the mountains are co¬ 
vered with forefts and paftures fit for cattle. Here and 
there are found fome natural curiofities, petrified (hells, 
lac lunse, fome metallic ores, mineral waters, pit-coal, &c. 
The principal lake is the Waldftatter See, or Lake of’Lu- 
cerrie; the principal river is the Reufs; the principal 
mountain is Mount Pilate, of which hereafter. 
The government.of Lucerne was entirely ariftocratical, 
or 
