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from a fovereign and a conqueror, he was inflantly tranf- 
formed into a Have ; though her beauty was now on the 
decline, and Demetrius, the handfomelt prince of his time, 
was much younger than herfelf. At her inlligation, lie 
conferred fitch extraordinary benefits upon the Atheni¬ 
ans, that they rendered him divine honours; and, as an ac¬ 
knowledgment of tlie influence, which file had exercifed 
in their favour, they dedicated a temple to her, under the 
name of Venus Lamia. 
LA'MfA, in ancient geography, a town of the Phfhio- 
tis, a diftrict of Thriftily. Famous forgiving name to the 
Bcllum Lamiacum, waged by the Greeks on the Macedo¬ 
nians after Alexander’s death. See the article Greece, 
vol. viii. p. 949. 
LA'MIFE, a fort of demons who had their exiftence in 
the imaginations of the heathens, and were fuppofed to 
devour children. Their form was human, refembling 
.beautiful women. Horace makes mention of them in 
his Art of Poetry. The name, according to fome, is 
derived from lanio, to tear; or, according to others, is 
a corruption of a Hebrew word fignifying to devour. Dr. 
Bryant fays, they were priefts of Ham, called El Ham ; 
hence 'Lamus and 'Lamia. Their chief city, perhaps Tau- 
romenium, is mentioned by Homer (Od. K.) as the city 
of Lamus, and the inhabitants as of the giant race. They 
were Amonians, and came originally from Babylonia. 
The Lamiae were to be found not only in Italy and Si¬ 
cily, but in Greece, Pontus, and Libya. However widely 
they may have been feparated, they are ftill reprefented 
in the fame unfavourable light. Formiae was one of their 
principal places in Italy; (Horace, lib. iii. Ode 17.) The 
chief temple of the Formians was upon the fea-coaft at 
Caiete ; it flood near a cavern, facred to the god Ait, 
called Ate, and Atis, and Attis : and it was hence called 
Caieta, and Caiatta. There were in the rock fome won¬ 
derful caves, which branched out into various apartments. 
.Here the ancient Lamii, the prielts of Ham, refided. They 
undoubtedly facrificed children here: and probably the 
fame cullom was common among the Lamii as among the 
Lacedaemonians, who ufed to whip their children round 
the altar of Diana Orthia. Fulgentius and others allure 
us, that the ancient Latines called the whipping of chil¬ 
dren caiatio. Caiat fignified a kind of whip, or thong; 
probably fuch was ufed at Caiate. 
LAMIA'RES, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Beira : fix miles fouth-fou.th-ea.ft of Lamego. 
LAM'INA,/ [Latin.] Thin plate; one coat laid over 
another. 
LAM'INATED, adj. Plated: ufed of fuch bodies whofe 
contexture difeovers fuch a difpofition as that of plates 
lying over one another.—From the appofition of different- 
coloured gravel arifes, for the moll part, the Laminated ap¬ 
pearance of a (lone. Sharp. 
LAMINATION,/ [from lamina.] The aft of beat¬ 
ing into thin plates; the flate of being laid as thin plates 
one over another. Scott. 
LA'MTNG,/. The aft of making lame. 
LAMIN'IUM, in ancient geography, a town of the 
Carpatani in the Hither Spain ; at the diftance of feven 
miles from the head of the Anas or Guadiana : now Mon- 
tiel, a citadel of New Caltile ; and the territory called Ager 
Laminitanus, is now el Campo dc Monticl. 
LAMI'RAS, a famous poet and mufician of Thrace, 
who, according to fome authors, was the inventor of the 
Dorian mode. He lived before Homer, and is faid to 
have been the firlt mufician who united the voice to the 
found of the cithara. 
LAMI'SA, a town of the principality of Georgia, in 
the province of Carduel : fixty miles well of Teflis. 
LAMIS'SA,/ A female who officiates as priell in Hin- 
dooftan. 
LAMIS'SA TUCEPA'MO, or the Great Regenera- 
trefs, in Hindoo mytliol gy. Her feat is on an i ft and in 
the lake Paltoo, by the natives called Jutndro, or Jangoo. 
LA'MITZ (Kirch), a town of Germany, in the prin- 
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cip.dity of Culmbach : eighteen miles north-north-eaft of 
Bayreuth, and nine fouth of Hof. 
LA'MITZ (Martin), a town of Germany, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Culmbach : three miles north-north-eaft of 
Kirch Lamitz. 
LA'MIUM, / [qu. lamia larvata, Linn, the flowers 
being (haped like a maik; or from lama, a flough.] Arch¬ 
angel and Dead Nettle; in botany, a genus of the 
clafs didynamia, order gymnofpermia, natural order of 
verticillatre, (labjatae, JuJf.) The generic charafters are— 
Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, tubular, wider above, 
five-toothed, awned, nearly equal, permanent. Corollas 
one-petalled, ringent; tube cylindric, very fhort ; border 
gaping; throat inflated, compreffed, gibbous, marked oa 
each edge with a reflex toothlet. Upper lip arched, round? 
ifh, obtu.fe, entire; lower lip fhorter, obcordate, etr.argi- 
nate, reflex. Stamina : filaments four, awl-fhaped, co¬ 
vered beneath the upper lip, two of them longer; antherce 
oblong, hairy. Piftillum : germ four-cleft; ltyle filiform, 
length and fituation of the llamens; ftigma two-cleft, 
(harp. Pericarpium : none ; calyx open, and bearing in 
its bofom the feeds, which are fiat at top. Seeds: four, 
fhort, three-fided, convex on one fide, truncated on both 
fides.— EJfentialCharacter. Corolla upperlipentire, vaulted j 
lower two lobed ; throat with a reflex toothlet on each fide. 
Species. 1. Lamium orvala, or baum-leaved archangel: 
leaves cordate, unequally and fharply ferrate; corollas in¬ 
flated at the throat; calyx coloured. Root perennial; 
flem from half a yard to almofl a yard in height, hifpid, 
branched, hollow, upright, frequently tinged with red to¬ 
wards the bottom. Leaves petioled, acuminate, veined, 
often red underneath, fmooth and Alining above. Whorls 
diflant, from fix to twelve or fourteen flowered. Co¬ 
rolla an inch long, of a deep red colour. The finell of 
the plant is very ttrong and unpleafant; but the fize and 
brilliant colour of the flowers have fecured it a place in 
the garden, which no other fpecies of this genus has a 
claim to. Native of Italy, Silefia, Hungary. Cultivated 
in 1629, according to Parkinfon, who names it Hungary 
dead-nettle, or dragon-flower. 
13 . Orvala garganica is a mere variety of this, owing its 
apparent difference to having grown in a moill fhady place., 
z. Lamium laevigatum, or fmooth archangel: leaves 
cordate, wrinkled ; (lem even ; calyxes fmooth, the length 
of the tube of the corolla. Stems purple, a foot high and 
more, alrnoft upright, brittle, little if at all hirfute, 
branched. Linnaeus obferves, that the calyx refembles 
that of the preceding. Native of Italy, Silefia, and Siberia. 
3. Lamium rugolum, or wrinkled archangel : leaves 
cordate, acute, wrinkled, hairy with the flem, whorls 
many-flowered; a Angle b'riflle-fhaped tooth at the throat. 
This plant is about a foot high. The flowers are larger 
than thofe of the common fort, and of a deep role-colour. 
Sometimes in cold fituations it produces curled leaves, 
round like thofe of the lime-tree. Native of Italy. 
4. Lamium garganicum, or woolly archangel : leaves 
cordate, pubefeent; throat of the corolla inflated ; tube 
ftraight, a double tooth on each fide. Flowers in whorls 
from the upper joints, large, of a pale purpliih colour, 
continuing in fucceffion molt part of the funnner. Lou- 
reiro deferibes the Item as perennial, upright, and three 
or four feet high ; the leaves as unequally notched ; the 
flowers as white-purple, in whorled lpikes, with the up¬ 
per lip entire, and the lower two-lobed. Native of Italy, 
Silefia, China, Cochin-china, and Japan. 
5. Lamium maculatum, or fpotted archangel : leaves 
cordate, acuminate ; whorls ten-flowered. This is very 
nearly allied to the next; but differs from it in having a 
purple corolla, the leaves marked with a longitudinal 
white area, which however difappears in fummer; the pe¬ 
tioles not widened ; flowers five on each fide, not ten ; 
two teeth on each fide of the throat, the upper one bridle- 
(haped. Villars remarks, that the leaves vary much in 
their fize and manner of notching, and that they are not 
always acuminate, but even blunt; the calyx alio varies, 
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