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of the Year; the Four Seafons 5 and the Grand Roman 
Cabinet ; al! in folio. 
LUYTS (John), a philofopher and aftroncmer, was 
horn in North Holland in 1665. He became profefl’or of 
philofophy and mathematics at Utrecht, where he died in 
1721. He wrote, 1. An aftronomical work, in which he 
rejected the Copernican fyftem, entitled “ In.ftitutio Af- 
tronomica, in qua doCtrina lphasrica, atque theorica, in- 
terfr.ixto ufu fphterse ccel?fiis, et variis chronologicis, per- 
traClantur.” 2. An Introduction to Modern and An¬ 
cient Geography, with many plates. In all that he wrote 
and taught, he fhowed hirr.felf a great partifan of the Arif- 
.totelian philofophy, in oppofition to that of Defcartes. 
Moreri. 
LUZ, [Heb. feparation.J The original name of Bethel. 
—-Alio, a city in Arabia Petraia, built by a man of Be¬ 
thel, who, while the tribe of Ephraim befieged that place, 
fhowed them a fecret entrance, whereby they took the 
city; for which, they fpared him and his family. He re¬ 
tired into the land of the Hiltites, and there built Luz, 
otherwife called Lefa, Lafa, or Lufla. Jud. i. 23-26. 
LUZ, a feapcrt town of the iliand of Canary : five miles 
north of Civdad de los Palmas. 
LUZ* a town of France, in the department of the 
Higher Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
triCf of Argeles. The place contains 2135, and the can¬ 
ton 6222, inhabitants. 
■ LU'ZA, a river of Rufha, which runs into the Dwina 
at Uftiog, 
LUZA'RA, a town of Italy, in the department of the 
Mincio. In the year 1702, a battle was fought near this 
town, between the troops of the empire under the com¬ 
mand of prince Eugene, and the French and Spaniards 
commanded by the duke of Anjou ; the dilpute .was long 
and bloody, and the victory was only known by the duke 
of Anjou becoming-mailer of Luzara. It is fixteen miles 
fouth of Mantua. 
LUZAR'CHES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Seine and Oife : fifteen miles north of Paris. Lat. 
49. 7. N. Ion. 2. 30. E. 
LU'ZEBURG, a ‘town of Eaft Friefland : two miles 
north-eaft-of Norden. 
LUZECH', a town of France, in the department of the 
Lot : leven miles weft-north-weft of Cahors, and fifteen 
fouth of Gourdon. Lat. 44. 29. N. I011.1.23.E. 
LU'ZERATH, a town of France, in the department 
of the Rhine and Mofelle, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftriCt of Coblentz. The place contains 614, and the 
canton 2525, inhabitants. 
LUZER'NE, a county of Pennfylvania, bordering on 
New York, l’eventy-nine miles from north to fouth, and 
leventy-five from eafl to weft, well watered by the Suf- 
ouehanna. It contains 12,839 inhabitants. The chief 
town is Wilkefbarre. , ■ 
LUZIL'LE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Indre : nine miles' fouth of Amboife. 
LUZK. See Lucko, p. 748. 
LUZO'N. See LU90N, p. 748. 
LUZURIA'GA, J- [fo called by the authors of the 
Flora Peruviana, in honour of a Spanifh botanift, or pa¬ 
tron of the fcience, of the fame name.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs hexandria, order monogynia, natural 
order farmentacese, Linn, (afphodeli, JuJf. afphodeleae-, 
Brown .) Generic eflential characters—Calyx none; co¬ 
rolla in fix deep equal fpreading beardlefs iegments, deci¬ 
duous ; filaments inferted into the bafe of. each fegment, 
rhread-lhaped, fmootb, curved at the point; antherse ar- 
row-fhaped, cohering; longer than the filaments; ftyle 
thread-fhaped, with three furrows; ftigma fimple ; berry 
with a few, nearly globofe, feeds. 
This genus conlilfs of climbing weak flirubs, with fim¬ 
ple libbed leaves. Flowers cymofe or umbellate, termi¬ 
nal and axillary ; their footftalks as it were articulated 
with the rather-tapering bafe of the flower. Berry black, 
lometimes enclofing only a Angle feed. Mr. Brown is not 
L Y C 
quite certain of this genus being precifely the fame with 
that of the Flora Peruviana. He defines two New-Hpl- 
land fpecies. 
1. Luzuriaga cymofa : cymes terminal, deeply divided ; 
branches round ; young branches firmed, fmooth. Found 
near Port Jnckfon, as well as within the tropic. 
2. Luzuriaga montana: umbels axillary, fialked ; 
branches ftriated, rough. Found near Port Jackfon. 
Brown's J’rodr. Nov. Llall. i. 281. 
LU'ZY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Nyevre : fifteen miles fouth-fouth.-eafi of Moulins en Gil¬ 
bert, and fixteen fouth-weft of Autun. 
LUZZA'NA, a town of Italy : twenty-two miles foutli 
of Mantua. 
LUZ'ZI, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra: four 
miles fouth of Bifignano. 
LWOVV. See Lemberg, vol. xii. p. 467. 
LY, a very frequent termination both of names of 
places and of adjeftives and adverbs ; when (r terminates 
the name of a place, it is derived from leag, Sax. a field. 
Gib/on. .When it ends an adjeCtive or adverb, it is con¬ 
tracted from Ikh, like: as, beafily, bealt-like; plainly, plain¬ 
like. 
LY'ZEUS, a furname of Bacchus. It is derived from 
hvsiv, to melt; becaufe wine, over which Bacchus prefides, 
gives freedom to the mind, and delivers it from all cares 
and melancholy. Horace. 
LY'AM,/. [poliibly from hgan, Sax. to lead.] A thong 
for holding a greyhound in hand : 
My dog-hook at my belt to which my lyam's ty’d. 
My flieaf of arrows,by, my wood-knife by my fide, 
My hound then in my lyam. Drayton's Mufts Elizium. 
LYAU'. See Leao, vol. xii. p. 416. 
LYB'IA. See Libya, vol. xii. 
LYB'IA, or Lybis'sa, a final! village of Bithynia, 
where Hannibal was buried. 
LYCABE'TUS, a mountain of Attica, near Athens, 
Statius. 
LYCAtPA, in antiquity, an Arcadian feftival refem- 
bling the Roman. lupercalia, in which the conqueror was 
rewarded with a fuit of brazen armour.—Alfo, a feftival 
at Argos, in honour of Apollo Lycteus, who delivered 
the Argives from wolves, &c. 
LYC-ZE'UM. See Lyceum, 
LYCiE'US, a mountain of Arcadia, facred to Jupiter, 
where a temple was built in honour of the god Lycteus, 
by Lycaqn, the Ion of Pelafgus. It was alio facred to Pan, 
whole feifivals, called Lycaa, were celebrated there. 
LYCAM'BES, the father of Neobule. He pro.mifed 
his daughter in. marriage to the poet Archilochus, and af¬ 
terwards refufed to fulfil his engagement when fire had 
been courted by a man of opulence. This, irritated Ar¬ 
chilochus; he. wrote a bitter inveclive againft Lycambes 
and his daughter, and rendered them both fo defperate by 
the fat-ire of his compofuion, that they hanged themleives. 
. LYCAN'THROPY, [ lycanthropia, Lat. from the Gr. 
},vx.os, a v.olt, and uvfyunos, a man; i. e. a wolf-inan, or 
man-wolf.] A term in ancient medicine, applied to that 
variety of infanity or melancholy, which induced the per- 
fons affefted to wander out in the night, howling and 
making other noifes, frequenting church-yards, or places 
of burial ; in which circumftances they were luppofed to 
imitate or to refemble wolves. Aetius and Paul of 2®gina 
havedefcribed fuch patients as pale, with dry and hollow 
eyes, parched tongue and mouth, excelfive thirft, and per¬ 
petual lores on their legs, in conlequence of the frequent 
accidents which they met with. The term was alfo applied 
to tliofe maniacs, who fancied themfelves transformed into 
wolves. The appellation of cynanthropia was alio given to 
thedifeafe, when the patients imitated the manners of dogs, 
or imagined themfelves to be changed into thefe animals, 
—He lees like a man in his lleep, and grows as much the 
wileras the man that dreamt of a lycanthropy, and was for 
ever after wary not to come near a river. Taylor. 
1 LYCA'ON, 
