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5. Lyfinema pungens: tube of the corolla undivided, 
the length of the calyx; leaves fpreading, ovate, (harp- 
pointed. Native of the country about Portjackfon, New 
South Wales, from whence fpeciinens were lent in 1791 
by Dr. White. The Item is woody, with many ftraight 
rigid branches, thickly befct with fertile, rigid, fmooth, 
entire, ribbed, fpinous, and taper-pointed, leaves. Flowers 
white and fragrant, very elegant, in denfe, leafy, terminal 
fpikes. Mr. Brown fays, that this is an intermediate fpe- 
cies, as it were, between Lyfinema and Epacris: it agrees 
with the latter in its corolla, but has the infertion of the 
ftamens proper to the former. See Epacris, vol. vi. 
p. 850. 
LYSIP'PDS, a celebrated fculptor and ftatuary of anti¬ 
quity, was a native of Sicyon, and flourirtied in the time 
of Alexander the Great. "He was originally a worker in 
bra is; but became an artift through the encouragement 
of the painter Eumolpus, who advifed him, inftead of 
forming himfelf upon the imitation of any particular maf- 
ter, to copy after nature herfelf. He worked with extra¬ 
ordinary diligence and facility ; fo that he is faid to have 
left 1500 performances, all of fuch excellence, that any 
one of them fingly might have conferred celebrity on the 
artift. His reputation was fo high, that Alexander per¬ 
mitted him alone to make his effigy in caft metal. He 
executed a feries of figures of that prince, beginning from 
his childhood ; and likewife made ftatues of Hepheftion 
and his other friends; all which were brought to Rome by 
Metellus after the conqueft of Macedonia. Lylippus im¬ 
proved the art of ftatuary by a better imitation of the 
hair, and by an attentive itudy of lymmetry, in which he 
considered how the human figure appeared to the eye, not 
what were its exaft proportions. For this reafon he was 
the firft who reduced the fize of the head, and thereby 
made his ftatues appear taller and more elegant. Among 
his works, the figure of a man feraping himfelf with a 
ltrigil was particularly admired. It was placed by Mar¬ 
cus Agrippa before his public baths; and being removed 
by Tiberius into his own chamber, the Roman people 
were fo clamorous in the theatre for its reftitution, that 
the emperor thought it freft to comply. A chariot of the 
fun, at R.hodes, was one of his great works ; which, how¬ 
ever, was furpaffed by a coloflfus at Tarentum, forty cu¬ 
bits high. He likewife praftifed in encauftic painting. 
Gen. Biog. 
LY'SIS, a Pythagorean philofopher who flourirtied in 
the fifth century B.C. was a native of Tarentum; and, 
according to Jamblicus, was inftru&ed by Pythagoras 
himfelf, towards the clofe of his life. This philofopher, 
having opened a fchool at Crotona, refufed to admit into 
it Cylon, one of the principal perfons for wealth and in¬ 
fluence in that city, but of a bad character and difpofition. 
Exafperated at this refufal, Cylon determined on an inhu¬ 
man revenge ; and, having at a concerted time affembled his 
partifans, let fire to the houfe of Milo, where about forty 
Pythagoreans were affembled, who were all burnt, or ftoned 
to death, excepting Lyfis and Arcbippus, who fortunately 
made their elcape. Lyfis now retired at firft into Achaia, 
and afterwards to Thebes, where he opened a fchool, 
died, and was buried. Lyfis is celebrated for having been 
a moft exact and punctual performer of his protnifes, even 
on the moft trivial occafions. As an inftance of this, 
'famblicus relates, that, as he was one day about to leave 
the temple of Juno, where he had been performing his 
devotions, he met Euryphamus of Syracufe, one of his 
fellow-difciples, who came thither for the fame purpole. 
The latter requefted that he would wait a fliort time, and 
he would join him ; which Lyfis promifed to do. After 
Euryphamus had offered up his prayers, he became fo ab- 
forbed in meditation, that he quite forgot his friend, and 
went out at another door. Lyfis waited for him during 
the remaining part of the day, the night following, and 
part of the next morning, and would have waited much 
longer, had not Euryphamus, upon entering the fchool, 
and perceiving him not prefent, recollected the meeting 
on the preceding day. Upon this he immediately returned 
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to the temple, where he found Lyfis; to whom he apolo¬ 
gized for his conduCl by obferving, that God had per¬ 
mitted his forgetfulnefs, in order that his friend might be 
furnifhed with a glorious opportunity of difplaying his 
ferupulous exaCtnefs in keeping his word. Lyfis com- 
pofed commentaries on the philofophy of Pythagoras, 
which have been long loft. Diogenes Laertius teltifies, 
that in his time there were extant fome treatifes of this 
philofopher, which commonly parted under the name of 
Pythagoras. Some attribute to him the “ Golden Verfes 
while others give them to Philolaus or Empedocles. The 
arguments by which learned men fupport their different 
hypothefes on this point may be feen in Fabricius, who 
is for aferibing them to the laft-mentioned philofopher. 
There is Iti 11 extant, under the name of Lyfis, a letter 
addreffed to Hipparchus, in w'hicli the latter is reproached 
for having divulged the fecrets of the Pythagorean philo¬ 
fophy. It is preferved in various collections, and among 
others in the Opufcula Mythologica et Philofophica of 
our learned countryman. Dr. Thomas Gale. Diog. Laert. 
Jamblic. Fit. Pytkag. 
LYSIS'TRATUS, a brother of Lyfippus. He was the 
firft nrtift who ever made a ftatue with wax. Pliny. 
LYS'KO, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Troki: twenty-four miles north of Grodno. 
LYS'KO, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Novogrodek : fifty-two miles fouth-weft of Novogrodek. 
LYSOBY'KI, a town of Aultrian Poland: twenty miles 
north-north-weft of Lublin. 
LYS'SA, j\ [Greek.] A word ufed by medical authors 
to exprefs that fpecies of madnefs which is peculiar to 
dogs and wolves, but is communicated by their bite to 
man and other animals. Hence perfons labouring under 
the difmal effects of fuch a bite, are called alfo /yjfbdecfi, 
LYS'SENDORF, a town of France, in the department 
of the Sarre, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt 
of Prum. The place contains 117, and the canton 1962, 
inhabitants. 
LYS'TON, or Lis'ton, in Devonfhire, is at prefent 
nothing more than a confiderable village, although for¬ 
merly a market-town ; the market was held on Saturday, 
and it had four fairs; at prefent it has only three, viz. 
February 2, Holy Thurfday, and OCfober 28. 
LY'STRA, a city of Lacaonia, whereof Timothy was 
a native. Paul and Barnabas, having preached there 
A. D. 4.5, and healed a man who had been lame from his 
birth, were taken for gods; Paul for Mercury, and Bar¬ 
nabas for Jupiter. Thefe apoftles had a great deal of 
difficulty to prevent the people from offering facrifices to 
them ; but very foon after, certain Jews of Iconium and 
Antioch in Pifidia coming thither animated the populace 
againlt them, who thereupon began to throw (tones at 
Paul and Barnabas, and dragged them out of the city 
fuppofing they were dead. Atts xiv. 6-19. See Lycao- 
nian Language, p. 807. 
LY'STRA, a town of the ftate of Kentucky, on Salt 
River. 
LY'SWIK, a town of Sweden, in the province of War- 
meland : thirty-four miles north of Carlltadt. 
LYT'BORROW, a village in Northamptonfhire, be¬ 
tween Tewcefter and Daventry. 
LYPCHAM, a village in Norfolk, between Eaft Dere- 
harn and Caftle Rifing. 
LYTE'RIA, f. [Greek.] The folution of an acute 
difeafe. 
LYTE'RIAN, adj. Belonging to the lyteria ; difeover- 
ing the folution of a difeafe. Scott. 
LYTH, a tovvnfhip of England, in the north riding of 
Yorkfhire, with 1037 inhabitants, of whom 550 are em¬ 
ployed in trade and manufactures: three miles north-welt 
of Whitby. 
LY'THE, a hamlet to Helfington, and adjoining 
Crofthwaite, in Weltmoreland. In this hamlet there is 
a large mofs known by the name of Lythe-Mofs, where 
leveral large trees are frequently dug up. One oak cou- 
taiued zoo» feet of wood. In this chapelry are fome very 
deep 
