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inhabited, but pleafant and fertile. On it is a building, 
divided into a church and a mofque, which the Catholics 
•vifit as well as the Mahometans. Near the church is a 
magazine, well provided, where veffels may find neceffa- 
ries, for which they depofit the value, if money, in a chert ; 
if goods, in the church. On certain days, home Sicilian 
monks come to collect the depoiits, and bring other rtores. 
The profits are applied to the hofpital at Trapani. The 
ifland is about twelve miles in circumference, with a good 
port, well fupplied with frelh water, and an excellent fi(h- 
ery on the coaft: fixty-three miles weft of Malta. Lat. 
35. 40. N. Ion. 12. 24. E. 
LAM'PERN, or Pride, f. A fpecies of lamprey. See 
Petromizon. 
LAMPETER, a townfliip in Lancafter county, Pen- 
fylvania. 
LAMPETIA, in ancient geography, a town of Italy, 
in Magna Grsecia, in the country of the Brutii. 
LAMPETIA, in fabulous hiitory, a daughter of Apollo 
and Netera. She with her filter Phaetufa guarded her fa¬ 
ther’s flocks in Sicily when Ulyfles arrived on the coafts 
of that ifland. Thefe flocks were fourteen in number, fe- 
ven herds of oxen and feven flocks of ftieep, conlifting 
each of fifty. They fed by night as well as by day, and 
it was deemed unlawful and facrilegious to touch them. 
The companions of Ulyfles, impelled by hunger, paid no 
regard to their fanftity, or to the threats and intreaties 
of their chief; but carried away and killed fome of the 
oxen. The keepers complained to their father; and Ju¬ 
piter, at the requeft of Apollo, punilhed the offence of 
the Greeks. The hides of the oxen appeared to walk, 
the flefli which was roafting by the fire began to bellow, 
and nothing was heard but dreadful noifes and loud low- 
ings. The companions of Ulyfles embarked on-board 
their (hips ; but here the refentment of Jupiter followed 
them. A ftorm arofe, and they all perifhed except Ulyf- 
fes, who faved himfelf on the broken piece of a malt. 
Homer. — Lampetia is alfo the name of one of the He- 
liades, who was changed into a poplar-tree at the death of 
her brother Phaeton. Ovid. 
LAMPETlANS,yi A fe£t of ancient heretics, in the 
feventh century, who condemned all kinds of vows, par¬ 
ticularly t hat of obedience, as inconfiftent with the liberty 
of the fons of God. 
LAMPE'TO, or Lampedo, a queen of the Amazons, 
who boafted herfelf to be the daughter of Mars. She 
gained many conquefts in Afia, where fhe founded feve- 
ral cities. She was furprifed afterwards by a band of bar¬ 
barians, and deftroyed with her female attendants. Juflin. 
LAMPE'US, or Lam'pia, a mountain of Arcadia. 
LAM'PI, a diftrift or country of Guinea, governed by 
a king, fubjeft to Aquambo. 
LAMPICHE'LEON, a town of Hindooftan, in the cir- 
car of Adoni: ten miles eaft of Condanore. 
LAM'PING, adj. Shining; fparkling. Notufed: 
Happy lines, on which with ftarry light 
Thofe lamping eyes will deign fometimes to look. Spenfcr. 
LAM'PIS, a town of Sweden, in Tavaftland : twenty- 
five miles eaft of Tavafthus. 
LAM'PO, a town on the weft coaft of Celebes. Lat. 
3. 55. S. Ion 120. 4. E. 
LAMPOCARY'A,/. [fo denominated by Mr. Robert 
Brown, from the Gr. ^ay.7 ru, to thine, and xa^vcv, a nut, 
or any fruit with a hard (hell; alluding to the hard and 
poliftied feeds.] In botany, a genus of the clafs tetrandria, 
order monogynia, natural order calamarise, Linn, (cy- 
peroideas, JuJf.') EJfential generic charaBers —Spikelets im¬ 
bricated on all fides, Angle-flowered, the outer fcales be¬ 
ing empty ; ftamens four; fometimes three or fix ; with per¬ 
manent elongated filaments. Style awl-fhaped, three cleft; 
ftigmas undivided. Nut bony, Ihining, pointed with the 
permanent bafe of the ftyle, its ftiell thickened upwards; 
the kernel fmooth. 
Species. 1 . Lampocarya afpera; ftamens four 3 fpike 
x. 
compound, leafy ; the partial one fcarcely divided ; fpike- 
lets cluftered ; inner fcales obtufe, fmooth. Gathered by 
Mr. Brown near Port Jackfon, as well as in the tropical 
part of the New Holland. The four ftamens are a very 
unufual number in this family. 
2. Lampocarya hexandra : Itamensfix; panicle clofe ; 
branches (lightly divided ; fpikelets collected into round 
heads ; fcales all (harp-pointed. Gathered by La Billar- 
diere in Van Diemen’s Land. The fterns are two feet high, 
round, leafy, fmooth ; leaves ftieathing, awl-fnaped, long, 
and (lender; panicle flender, ereft, compofed of feveral 
ftalked heads of flowers, with two or three lanceolate 
bracleas at the bafe of each. Mr. Brown doubts whether 
this fecond fpecies be properly referred to the genus in 
queftion. It might perhaps be advifable to-reduce both 
of them to Gahnia, which fee. 
LAM'POL, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw, near the Dniefter : fifty-fix miles fouth-fouth- 
weft of Braclaw. 
LAM'PON, a town on the fouth coaft of Sumatra, fi- 
tuated in the bay of the Straits of Snnda. It is the capi¬ 
tal of a diftrift which belongs to the king of Bantam. 
The Dutch havearefident here. Lat. 5. 40. S. Ion. 105.15. E. 
LAM'PON BA'Y, a bay on the eaft coaft of the ifland 
of Luqon. Lat. 14. 46. N. Ion. 122. 14. E. 
LAMPOO'N, f. [ Bailey derives it from lampons , a 
drunken fong. It imports let us drink, from the old French 
lamper, and was repeated at the end of each couplet at ca- 
roufals. Trev. ] A perfonal fatire; abufe ; cenfure written 
not to reform but to vex.—They fay my talent is fatire j 
if fo, it is a fruitful age ; they have (own the dragon’s 
teeth themfelves, and it is but juft they (hould reap each 
other in lampoons. Dryden. 
To LAMPOO'N, v. a. To abufe with perfonal fatire. 
LAMPOO'NER, f. A fcribbler of perfonal fatire.—We 
are naturally difpleafed with an unknown critic, as the la¬ 
dies are with a lampooner, becaufe we are bitten in the dark. 
Dryden. 
LAM'PREY,/. \lamproye, Fr. lamprcye, Dut.] A fifti. 
See PETROtryaON.—Many fifti much like the eel frequent 
both the fea and frefti rivers; as, the lamprel, lamprey , and 
lamperne. Walton. 
LAM'PREY RIV'ER, a water of Great Bay, in New- 
Hampfhire. 
LAM'PRON, f. A kind of fea-fifh.—Thefe rocks are 
frequented by lamprons, and greater fifties, that devour the 
bodies of the drowned. Broom on the Odyjfey . 
LAMPRID'IO (Benedict), a modern Latin poet, was 
born about the clofe of the fifteenth century at Cremona. 
He went to Rome in his youth, and was firlt domeltieated 
with Paul Cortefi. He then taught in the Greek college 
inftituted in the pontificate of Leo X. by John Lafcaris. 
Removing to Padua, he palled many years in that city, 
employed as a private teacher of the learned languages, 
and much efteemed by perfons of eminence. His repu¬ 
tation attracted the notice of Frederic Gonzaga, duke of 
Mantua, who engaged him at a liberal ftipend to live at 
liis court, and undertake the education of his only fon. 
He died at Mantua, according to the common opinion, in 
1540; but Tirabofchi mentions a letter written to him 
by Aonius Palearius, which refers to an incident of the 
year 1542. Lampridio is known as an author by ids 
Greek and Latin poems, confiding of epigrams and odes. 
There are, likewile, extant three Italian letters written by 
him to cardinal Bembo, and one Latin letter to cardinal 
Pole. An edition of his Latin poems, together with thofe 
of J. Bapt. Amaltheus, was printed at Venice, in 8vo. 
1550. Tirabofchi. 
LAMPRID'IUS (ZElius), a Roman hiftorian, lived in 
the fourth century, under Dioclefian and Conrtanrine. 
There are remaining in his name the lives of Commodus, 
Antoninus, Diadumenus, Heliogabalus, and Alexander 
Severus. It is, however, doubted whether the latter life 
belongs to Lampridius, as fome manufcripts afcribe it to 
Spartianus. It has indeed been fuggefted, that thefe are 
