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annunciation of the Holy Virgin. See Annunciation, 
-vol. i. 
LADY’s FIN'GER. See Anthyllis. 
LADY’S HA'IR. See Briza. 
LADY’s I'SLAND, an ifland in the Atlantic, near the 
eoafl of America, between Port Royal Ifland and St. He¬ 
lena. Lat. 42. 30. N. Ion. 80. 32. W. 
LA'DY KIRK, a town on the illand of South Ronald- 
iha. Lat. 58. 38. N. Ion. 2.49. W. 
LADY’s LA'CES,/ in botany, a kind of ftriped grafs. 
LA'DY-LIKE, adj. Soft; delicate; elegant: 
Her tender conftitution did declare. 
Too lady-like a long fatigue to bear. Drydcn. 
LADY’s MAN'TLE, f. A plant. See Alchemilla. 
LADY’s MOUTH,/ The name of a plant. 
LADY’s ROCK. See Lismore. 
LADY’s SE/AL, / in botany, the name of a plant. See 
Tamus. 
LADY’s SLIP'PER,/ A plant. See Cypripedium, 
vol. v. 
LADY’s SMOCK, /. A plant. See Cardamine, vol. 
iii.—See here a boy gathering lilies and lady-fmocks, and 
there a girl cropping culverkeys and cowflips, all to make 
garlands. Walton's Angler. 
When dailies pied, and violets blue. 
And lady's-fmocks all filver white. 
Do paint the meadows much bedight. Shakefpeare. 
LADY’s TRA'CES. See Ophrys. 
LA'DYSHIP,/. The title of alady.—Madam, lie fends 
your ladyjhip this ring. Shakefpeare . 
I the wronged pen to pleafe, 
Make it my humble thanks exprefs 
Unto your ladyjhip in thefe. Waller. 
LAJLIA'NUS, a general, proclaimed emperor in Gaul 
by his foldiers (A. D. 268) after the death of Gallienus. 
His triumph was fliort; he was conquered and put to death 
after a few months reign by another general called Pofthu- 
mus, who afpired to the imperial purple as well as him- 
felf; but who, with other pretenders, was foon fwept off 
the fcene by Claudius. See the article Rome. 
LyE'LIUS (Cains), a noble Roman, the intimate friend 
of the firft Scipio Africanus, accompanied that general 
as commander of his fleet into Spain, and was inftrumental 
in the taking of Carthage. (See vol.iii. p. 851.) AfterSpain 
was reduced under the Roman dominion, Laelius was fent 
by Scipio to treat with Syphax, and was afterwards employ- 
deto ravage the coalt of Africa. In conjunction with Maf- 
fmiffa he defeated Syphax, and brought him prifoner to 
Rome. At the battle of Zama he commanded the Italian 
liorfe, and had a great fliare in the fuccefs of the day. 
He was made conful in 190 B.C. Livy. 
LyE'LIUS (Caius), furnamed the Wife, fuppofed to 
have been the fon of the preceding, was equally diftin- 
guifhed with the former by his friend/hip with the fecond 
Scipio Africanus. He was likewife an eminent orator, 
and a cultivator of polite literature, having been a dilci- 
p!e of Diogenes the Stoic, and of Pantetius. He figna- 
lized his courage, in the war againft Viriathus in Spain, 
but was chiefly known by his civil honours. His ora¬ 
tory is by Cicero defcribed as of the mild and elegant 
kind, to which his temper of mind was adapted; for he 
is faid never on any occaflon to have difplayed a change of 
countenance. His furname, according to Cicero, was de¬ 
rived from the philofophic temperance of his mode of liv¬ 
ing; but Plutarch afcribes it to the prudence with which 
he dropped a project for improving the condition of the 
plebeians, when he found that it would meet with a vio¬ 
lent oppofition. He was a member of the college of au¬ 
gurs, and pronounced one of his moft famous orations in 
that capacity. He attained the confullhip in the year B. C. 
140. When his friend Scipio quitted all concern in pub¬ 
lic affairs, Ltelius accompanied him to his country retreat 
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of Liternum ; and Cicero has immortalized their connexion 
by making it the bafis of his Dialogue on Friendrtiip, in 
which Laelius appears as the chief fpeaker. He is fuppofed to 
have had a fliare in the compofition, or at lead the cor¬ 
relation, of Terence’s comedies. Cicero deOratore. Volin Poet, 
Lat. 
LAi'NA,/ in antiquity, a gown worn by the Roman 
augurs, and peculiar to their office. In this gown they 
covered their heads, when they made their obfervations 
on the flight of birds, See. 
IYE'NA, or Leze'na, the miffrefs of Harmodius and 
Ariffogiton. Being tortured becaufe Are refufed to dis¬ 
cover the confpirators, the bit oft’ her tongue, totally to 
fruftrate the violent efforts of her executioners. 
LZE'NEUS, a river of Crete, where Jupiter brought the 
ravilhed Europa. Strabo. 
LA'ER (Peter). See Bamboccio, vol. ii. 
LA'ERN, a town of France, in the department of the 
Scheldt : five miles ealt of Ghent. 
LAER'TES, a king of Ithaca, fon of Arcefius and 
Chalcomedufa, who married Anticlea the daughter of Au- 
tolycus. Anticlea was pregnant by Sifyphus when fhe 
married Laertes, and eight months after her union with 
the king of Ithaca (lie brought forth a fon called Ulyffes. 
Ulyfles was treated with paternal care by Laertes, though 
not really his fon ; and Laertes ceded to him his crown, 
and retired into the country, where he fpent his time in 
gardening. He was found in this mean employment by 
liis fon at his return from the Trojan war, after twenty 
years abfence ; and Ulyfles, at the fight of his father, 
whole drefs and old age declared his forrow, long hefi- 
tated whether he (hould fuddenly introduce himfelf as his 
fon, or whether he fiiould, asaftranger, gradually awaken 
the paternal feelings of Laertes, who had believed that 
liis fon was no more. This laft meafure was preferred ; 
and, when Laertes had burft into tears at the mention 
which was made of his fon, Ulyffes threw himfelf on his 
neck, exclaiming, “ O father, I am lie whom you weep.” 
This welcome declaration was followed by a recital of all 
the hardfnips which Ulyffes had fuffered, and immediately 
after the father and fon repaired to the palace of Penelope 
the wife of Ulyfles, whence all the fuitors who daily im¬ 
portuned the princefs were forcibly removed. 
LAER'TES, a city of Cilicia which gave birth to Dio¬ 
genes, furnamed Laertius from the place of his birth. 
LAER'TIUS. See Diogenes Laertius, vol. v. p. 
837. 
LA'ERWOLDE, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Bentheim: three miles fouth-fouth-weft of Covorden. 
LALS'SOE. See LESSoe. 
_ LiESTRYG'ONES, the moft ancient inhabitants of Si¬ 
cily. Some fuppofe them to be the fame as the people of 
Leontium, and to have been neighbours to the Cyclops. 
They fed on human flefli ; and, when Ulyfles came on their 
coalts, they funk liis fiiips and devoured his companions. 
They were of a gigantic ftature, according to Homer’s 
defeription. A colony of them, as fome fuppofe, paffect 
over into Italy with Lamus at their head, where they built 
the town of Formiae, whence the epithet of Lcejlrygonia is 
often ufed for that of Formiana. 
LA'ET (John de), a copious writer in geography and 
civil hiltory, was a native of Antwerp. Scarce^ any 
thing is known of liis life ; but the title is given him of di¬ 
rector of the Dutch Ealt-India company. He was intimate 
with Saumaife, or Salmafius, and was converfant with a 
variety of languages. He died at Antwerp in 1649. Of 
the works which he compoled, or edited, the following 
are the principal: 1. Hifpania. 2. Gallia. 3. De princi- 
pibus Italias traftatus varii. 4. Belgii confasderati ref- 
publica. 5. Turcici imperii flatus. 6. Perfia. 7. De 
imperio magni Mogolis. 8. Portugailia. 9. Refpublica Po- 
lonias, Lithuania;, Pruflis, and Livoniae. All thefe final! 
volumes, deferibing the geography, government, manners, 
productions, See. of the feveral countries treated of, 
though not extremely accurate in their information, we re 
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