LAN 
LANTOS'CA, a town of France, In the department of 
the Maritime Alps: twelve miles north of Nice. 
LANT'WIT, or Lantwit Major, an ancient town 
about fix miles from Cowbridge in Glamorganfhire, was 
formerly in great repute for the Angularity of its having 
a large market on Sunday mornings : this has been long 
fince abolifhed, and no market eftablifhed in its ftead. It 
has, however, a large fair for lambs on the nth of June. 
LANT'ZENDORF, a town of Auftria : five miles fouth 
of Vienna. 
LANT'ZENKIRCH, a town of Auftria : two miles 
fouth of Neuftadt. 
LANVEN'EGEN, a town of France, in the department 
of the Morbihan: three miles fouth-weft of Le Faouet, 
and feventeen north of L’Orient. 
LANVIHAN'GEL, a village in Carmarthenfhire, with 
fairs May 12 and Oct. 10. 
LANVOL'LON, a town of France, in the department 
of the North Coafts: eleven miles north-weft of St. Brieuc, 
and eight fouth-eaft of Pontrieu. 
LANU'GINOUS, adj. \_lanuginofus, Lat.] Downy; co¬ 
vered with foft hair. 
LANU'GO,yi The foft down of plants, like that grow¬ 
ing on the fruit of the peach-tree. 
LANU'VIUM, in ancient geography, a town of Latium, 
about fixteen miles from Rome on the Appian road. Juno 
had there a celebrated temple, which was frequented by 
the inhabitants of Italy, and particularly, by the Romans, 
whofe confuls on firft entering upon office offered facri- 
fices to the goddefs. The ftatue of the goddefs was co¬ 
vered with a goat’s (kin, and armed with a buckler and 
fpear, and wore (hoes which were turned upwards in the 
form of a cone. 
LANU'ZA (Jerome-Baptift de Sellan de), a pious Spa- 
ltiffi.prelate, was born at Ixarin Saragofta, in the year 1553. 
Early in life he entered into the Dominican order, and 
by his abilities and learning, as well as his piety, acquired 
confiderable reputation. He taught divinity at Valencia 
and Saragofta ; and, after filling different inferior pofts, 
was chofen provincial of his order. He took an active 
part in the difputes on the fubjedt of grace , and was fo 
zealous an opponent of the difciples of St. Auguftine, 
that he obtained the furname of the Dominic of his age. In 
the year 1616, he was nominated bifliop of Balbaltro ; and 
in 1622, was tranflated to the fee of Albarazin ; where he 
died in 1625. He was the author of feveral practical and 
devotional works, which are fpoken of in high terms of 
commendation j as are, alfo, his Homilies, which were 
tranflated into Latin, and publifhed at Mentz, in 164.9, 
in 4 vois. 4to. and have likewife appeared in a French ver- 
iion. Moreri. 
LANWIN'IO, a village in Carmarthenfhire, with a fair 
Nov. 12. 
LAN'ZA, or Lan'sa, a town of Spain, in Navarre: 
eight miles north of Pamplona. 
LAN'ZO, a town of France, in the department of the 
Po, on the Stura : fixteen miles eaft of Sufa, and eleven 
north-weft of Turin. 
LANZO'NI (Jofeph), a phyfician, was born at Ferrara 
on the 26th of October, 1663. From his early childhood 
he exhibited a rtrong inclination for literature, which his 
parents indulged, by obtaining for him the beft matters. 
He diftinguiflied himfelf particularly in the fchools of phi- 
lofophy and of medicine, and graduated in both thefe 
fciences in the year 1683. In the following year, at the 
age of twenty-one, he was appointed ordinary profeffor, 
and difplayed talents which did honour to the univerfity 
of Ferrara, during the long period in which he filled that 
office. He died in February 1730, at the age of 66; hav¬ 
ing acquired a high reputation by the fuccefs of his prac¬ 
tice, and obtained the confidence and efteem of many il- 
luftrious perfonages. He was diftinguiflied likewife by 
his genius in Latin and Italian poetry; and he was the 
reftorer and fecretary of the academy of Ferrara, and a 
member of many of the learned focieties of his time. He 
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left a confiderable number of works, both publifhed and 
in manufcript; and a complete collection of both was 
printed at Laufanne, in 1738, in 3 vols. 4to. with an ac¬ 
count of his life, under the title of “Jofephi Lanzonij. 
Philofophte et Medicinae Doftoris, in Patria Univerfitate 
Ledtoris primarii, &c. Opera omnia Medico-phyfica et 
Philologica.” Elay. Did. Hijl. 
LA'O, a town of the ifiand of Cuba: twenty-five miles 
weft of Havannah. 
LA'O, or Le'ao, a city of China, of the fecond rank, 
in Chan-fi: 230 miles fouth of Pekin. Lat. 37.4. N. Ion. 
112. 57. E. 
LA'O-KUN-TIM', a town of Chinefe Tartary: fifty 
miles fouth-weft of Ning-yuen-tcheou. 
LA'O-TIM', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Pe-tche-li: twenty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Lan. 
LA'O-TING', a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
Quan-tong: 1135 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Pekin. Lat. 
22. 54. N. Ion. 110. 34. E. 
LAOBO'TAS, or Lab'otas, a Spartan king, of the fa¬ 
mily of the Agidse, who fucceeded his father Echeftratus, 
B. C. 1023. During his reign war was declared againft 
Argos by Sparta. He fat on the throne for thirty-feven 
years, and was fucceeded by Doryflus his foil. Paujanias. 
LAOC'OON, in fabulous hiftory, a fon of Priam and 
Hecuba, or according to others of Antenor or of Capys. 
Being prieft of Apollo, he was commiffioned by the Tro- 
jans to offer a bullock to Neptune to render him propi¬ 
tious. During the facrifice two enormous ferpents ifl’ued 
from the fea, and attacked Laocoon’s two fons who ltood 
next to the altar. The father immediately attempted to 
defend his fons ; but the ferpents falling upon him fqeezed 
him in their complicated wreaths, and he died in the 
greateft agonies. This puniftiment was faid to have been 
inflicted upon him for difluading the Trojans from bringing 
into the city the fatal wooden horfe which the Greeks had 
confecrated to Minerva, as alfo for his impiety in hurling 
a javelin againft the fides of the horfe as it entered within 
the walls. Virg. EEn. ii. According to Hyginus, he fuf- 
fered the above puniftiment for his marriage againft the 
confent of Apollo; or, according to others, for his pol¬ 
luting the temple, by his commerce with his wife Anti- 
ope before the ftatue of the god. Hygin. fab. 135. 
Of this tragical ftory there is extant a celebrated mo¬ 
nument of Greek fculpture executed in marble by Age- 
fander, Polydorus, and Athenodorus, the three famous 
artifts of Rhodes. Agefander is fuppofed to have been 
the father of the two latter. This remain of antiquity 
was found at Rome, in the ruins of the palace of Titus, 
in the beginning of the fixteenth century, under the pon¬ 
tificate of Julius II. and afterwards depofited in the Far- 
nefe palace. Laocoon is here prefented with his two fons, 
with two hideous ferpents clinging round his body, gnaw¬ 
ing it, and injeCling their poilon : Virgil has given us the 
following defcription of the faCt: 
- Serpens amplcxus ulerque 
Implicat, et mifcros morfu depafcitur arias: - 
Corripiunt, fpirijque ligant ingentibus, et jam. 
Bis medium amplcxi, bis collofquamea circum 
Terga dati. J'uperant capite et cenicibus altis. JEn. ii. 20s. 
The ferpents firft in fiery volumes bound 
Laocoon’s fons, and wrapt them round and round ; 
Devour’d the children in the father’s view; 
Then on the miferable father flew: 
Twice round his waift and round his neck they rear 
Their winding heads, and liifs aloft in air. Pitt. 
This ftatue exhibits the moft aftonifliing dignity and tran¬ 
quillity of mind in the midft of the molt excruciating tor¬ 
ments. Pliny fays of it, that it is, opus omnibus pidurea ei 
Jlatuaria artis, praferendum. 
When Italy was overrun by the French during the late 
revolution, this wonderful monument of ancient art was 
removed, along with the celebrated Apollo Belvidere, &c. 
from the Vatican, where they had been .feen and admired 
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