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an edition of the Septuagint, with corre&ions fuggefted 
by a collation of ancient copies ; which verfion was ge¬ 
nerally tiled, in Jerome’s time, by the churches from Con- 
ftantinopte to Antioch. Lucian alfo publilhed an edition 
of the New Teftament, the canon of which appears to have 
been much the fame with that of other Chriltians. Je¬ 
rome, however, does not commend thefe editions, but ac- 
eufes them of containing readings and interpolations not 
warranted by good authorities ; and he depreciates Lu¬ 
cian’s Septuagint in comparifon with Origen’s, which laft 
he himfelf followed in his tranflation of the Old Tefta- 
rnent from the Greek. During the perfecution of the 
Chriltians in the reign of Maximin, Lucian was taken 
into cultody, and conducted to Nicomedia, where the 
emperor then was. Here, in the prefence of the emperor, 
he was commanded to renounce the Chriif ian faith ; which 
he (teadily refilled, and delivered an eloquent and able 
apology for it. Upon this he was fent to prifon, where 
he was put to death ; but in what manner we are not pre- 
cifely informed. In St. Jerome’s time there were extant 
1‘ome fmall treatifes of his concerning the faith, and fome 
letters ; of which there are no remains now in exiltence 
excepting a fragment of one letter preferved in the Paf- 
chal Chronicle, if that be genuine. As to the creed or 
formulary of faith concerning the Trinity, which is fome- 
times called Lucian’s, its claim to genuinenefs cannot be 
reconciled with the teitimony of antiquity. In “ the A£ts 
of Lucian,” inferted in the firlt volume of Bollandus’s 
Adla Sanftor. many additional circumftances are men¬ 
tioned refpefting Lucian, which are either evidently fa¬ 
bulous, or contradi&ory to the eftablilhed truth of hiltory; 
and are therefore undel'erving of notice. 
LUCIA'NA, a town of Spain, in the country of Seville: 
eight miles weft-north-weft of Ecija. 
LUCIANA'NO, a town of Etruria: twelve miles weft 
of Cortona. 
LU'CIANISTS, or Lucanists, f . A religious fefl, fo 
called from Lucianus, orLucanus, a heretic of the fecond 
century, being a difciple of Marcion, whofe errors he 
followed, adding fome new ones to them. Epiphanius 
fays, he abandoned Marcion 5 teaching, that people ought 
not to marry for fear of enriching the Creator: and yet 
other authors maintain, that he held this error in common 
with Marcion, and other Gnoitics. He denied the immor¬ 
tality of the foul ; afferting it to be material. 
There was another fe£l of Lucianifts, who appeared 
fome time after the Arians. They taught that the Father 
had been a Father always, and that he had the name even 
before he begot the Son, as having in him the power or 
faculty of generation ; and in this manner they accounted 
for the eternity of the Son. 
LUCIA'NO, a town of Spain, in New Caftile : nine- 
seen miles welt of Civdad Reel. 
LU'CIBLE,' adj. Capable of (hining; apt to thine. Cole. 
LU'CID, adj. Shining; bright; glittering: 
The pearly fhell its lucid globe unfold, 
And Phcebus warm the rip’ning ore to gold. Pope. 
Pellucid ; tranfparent.—On the tranfparent fide of a globe, 
half filver and half of a tranfparent metal, we faw certain 
itrange figures circularly drawn, and thought we could 
touch them, till we found our fingers flopped by that lucid 
fubftance. Gulliver's Travels. 
On the fertile banks 
Of Abbana and Pharpar, lucid ftreams. Milton. 
Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened with 
madnefs.—A few fenfual and voluptuous perfons may, for 
a feafon, eclipfe this native light of the foul; but can 
never fo w holly Another and extinguish it, but that, at 
fome lucid intervals, it will recover itfelf again, and fhine 
forth to the convi&ion of their confcience. Bentley. 
Some beams of wit on other fouls may fall. 
Strike through and make a lucid interval; 
LUC 
But Shadweil’s genuine night admits no ray. 
His rifing fogs prevail upon the day. Dryden. 
LU'CIDA CORO'NAS, inaftronomy, a fixed ftarof the 
fecond magnitude in the Northern Crown. See Corona 
Borealis. 
LU'CIDA HY'DRAs. See Cor Hydr.e, vol. v. 
LU'CIDA LY'RAE, a bright ftarof the firlt magnitude 
in the conftellation Lyra. 
LUCID'ITY, or Lu'cidness, f . Splendour; bright- 
nefs. 
LL'CIDO (St.), a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra : 
eleven miles weft-north-weft of Cofenza. 
LU CIENSTEIG (St.), a very narrow pafs from the 
country of the Grifons into Germany. At this place all 
merchandife and goods pay a toll to the Grifons. It is- 
defended by a fort: three miles north of Meyenfeld. 
LU'CIFER, the name of the planet Venus, or morn¬ 
ing Itar. It is called Lucifer when appearing in the 
morning before the fun ; but, when it follows it, and ap¬ 
pears fome time after its fetting, it is called Hefperus. Ac¬ 
cording to fome mythologifts, Lucifer was Ion of Jupiter 
and Aurora. 
LU'CIFER, in the holy Scripture, is taken, 1. for the 
morning-ftar; 2. for Jefus Chrift, who is the light of the 
world ; 3. for the devil, who by the fathers is often called 
Lucifer. Zophar fays to Job, “ It thou art innocent, 
thou Jhalt Jhine forth as the morning-(liar.)” Job. xi. 17. 
Ifaiah, xiv. 12, See . fpeaks of the fall of Lucifer ; Horn art 
thou fallen from Heaven, 0 Lucifer, fon of the morning ! In 
this way feveral fathers, and other commentators, have 
explained it; but others are of opinion that it literally 
refers to the king of Babylon, who fell from his ftate of 
glory and elevation, and was caft headlong into hell ; i. e. 
into hades, the ftate of the dead. St. Peter (2 Pet. i. 19.) 
tells the faithful, that “ they have the fure word of pro¬ 
phecy whereunto they do well that take heed, as unto a 
light that fhineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and 
the (lay-far arife in their hearts .” This day far, this 'light, 
fet in oppofition to the oraejes of the preceding prophets, 
and over which they have fo much advantage by its clear- 
nefs, denotes the Gofpel and doctrine of Jefus Chrift. 
Some are of opinion, that Phofphorus and Lucifer fignify 
the fun. The Arabians call Lucifer Eblis ; and likewiie 
Azazel, which is the name of the fcape-goat that was 
driven into the wildernefs, loaded with the fins of the 
Jewifh people. They relate, that the-angels, having God’s 
order.to fall proftrate before Adam immediately after his 
Creation, all complied, except Eblis, who obftinately re- 
fufed, alleging, that, he and his companions having been 
derived from the element of fire, which is much purer 
and more excellent than that of earth, whereof Adam 
was formed, it was not juft that they fhould be obliged to 
pay homage to their inferior. Whereupon God laid to 
him, “ Be gone from hence 3 for thou flialt be deprived 
for ever of my peace, and fhalt be curfed to the day of 
judgment.” Eblis defiled of God that he would grant 
him refpite till the time of the general refurreftion ; but 
all the delay he could obtain, was till the found of the 
firft trumpet ; that is to fay, forty years after. Eblis there¬ 
fore died according to the Mahometans, but he will here¬ 
after rife with all men, in order to be plunged in flames. 
I relate all thefe idle traditions only to lhew, that the 
theology of the eaftern people is but a corruption of 
Chriftianity. Calmet's Di£l. of the Bible. 
LU'CIFER, the celebrated bifhop of Cagliari, or Ca- 
laris as the ancients wrote it, the metropolitan city of the 
sfland of Sardinia, flourilhed in the fourth century. He 
was one of the deputies fent by pope Liberius to Milan 
in the year 354, whither the emperor Conftantius had 
fummoned a council for the purpofe of condemning Atha- 
nafius. At that council Lucifer and Eulebius bilhops of 
Verceil adhered moft ftrenuoufly to thecaufe of the Alex¬ 
andrian prelate, whom they defended with undaunted 
courage. Provoked at their firmnefs, which few had the 
fpirit 
