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painted feme pictures. After a ftay of four years in Eng¬ 
land, he returned to Paris, where Vander Meulen and 
Le Brim perfuaded him to remain, and he prefently ac¬ 
quired great fame in the walk of portrait. He was ad¬ 
mitted into the academy as a hiftory-painter, which branch 
lie did not abandon, though he chiefly praftifed in the 
other. At the acceftion of James II. he was fent over to 
England to take the portraits of him and his queen ; he 
did not, however, make a long flay, but returned to Pa¬ 
ris, where he was employed in two great piftures for the 
hall of the Hotel-de-ville. Thefe reprefented the feftival 
given by the city of Paris to Louis XIV. and his court, 
on occaficn of his recovery, and the marriage of the duke 
of Burgundy to the princefs of Savoy. He acquitted 
liimfelf with great reputation in thefe works; and after¬ 
wards painted a votive pifture placed in the church of 
St. Genevieve at the end of two years of fcarcity. Lar- 
gilliere was not much employed at court, of which ho¬ 
nour he was little ambitious, preferring the prompt pay¬ 
ment of the public at large. He, however, painted feve- 
ral of the princes ; but obtained no penfion. One of his 
greateft honours was that of being defired to place his own 
portrait in the gallery of artifts of the duke of Tufcany, 
where it is diftinguifhed for beauty of execution. He 
palled through all the offices of the Academy of Painting, 
and died its chancellor. This artilt poffeffed great ferti¬ 
lity of invention and readinefs of execution, a light and 
free touch, correftnefs of delign, and (kill in compofition. 
He particularly excelled in colouring, his tints being clear 
and freffi, which character they long preferved. In his 
portraits, the heads and hands are executed with peculiar 
delicacy. He acquired wealth by his art, and built a fine 
houfe at Paris, adorned with the works of his own pencil. 
His private character procured him many friends, and he 
preferved his gaiety of temper to a very advanced age. 
He died in 1746, in his ninetieth year. Sixty of his pieces 
have been engraved, among which are portraits of fome 
of the moil diftinguiffied perfons of his time. D'Argen- 
ville. 
LARGIL'OQUENT, adj. Speaking largely; full of 
words. Bailey. 
LARGI'TIO, f [Latin.] In Roman antiquity, was a 
diflribution of corn, provifion, clothes, money, &c. to the 
people. Gracchus, when tribune, to make himfelf popu¬ 
lar, pafled a law for fupplying the Roman citizens with 
corn at a very low rate, out of the public granaries. 
Claudius, another tribune, with the fame views to popu¬ 
lar applaufe, procured it to be diltributed gratis. Cato, 
to win the common people from Caefar, perfuaded the fe- 
nate to do the fame; and 300,000 citizens ffiared in the 
diftribution. Caefar, after his triumph, extended his 
bounty to 150,000, giving them each a mina. The Ro¬ 
man emperors enlarged Hill farther the lift of thofe who 
were to partake of their diftributions. Largitio is fre¬ 
quently taken in a bad fenfe, to fignify a maiked bribery; 
whereby candidates purchafed votes, when they flood for 
places of honour or truft in the ftate. 
LARGI'TION,/ \_largitio, Lat.] The aft of giving. 
LARGI'TIONAL, f. An officer who had the difpofing 
of gifts. Cole. 
LAR'GO, adv. in mufic, a mode of time two degrees 
quicker than adagio. 
LAR'GO, a feaport town of Scotland, in the county of 
Fife, fituated on the north coaft of the Frith of Forth, in 
a large bay, to which it gives name, which is a good and 
fafe road for velfels of every defeription. Population 
1867. It is fix miles-fouth of Cupar, and fourteen eaft of 
Kirkcaldy. Lat. 56. 14. N. Ion. 2. 57. W. 
LAR'GO GULF, a bay on the coaft of Iftria, near Pi- 
rano. 
LAR'GO LAW, a hill about 800 feet high, about a 
jnile north of Largo. 
LARGS, a feaport town of Scotland, in the county of 
Ayr, fituated in a bay of the Clyde, with a weekly mar¬ 
ket, and about 1360 inhabitants. This place is rendered 
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memorable by the defeat of the Norwegians here in their 
laft invafion of this country. This invafion was made in 
the year 1263, with a fleet of 160 fail and an army of 
20,000 men, commanded by Haquin king of Norway ; news 
of whofe ravages on the coaft of Ayr, Bute, and Arran, 
reaching the Scottifh court, an army was immediately af- 
fembled by Alexander III. and a bloody engagement en- 
fued at this village, when 16,000 of the invaders were 
flain in the battle and flight, with 5000 Scots. Haquin 
efcaped to the Orkneys, where he foon after died of grief. 
The entrenchments of the Norwegian camp may ftill be 
traced along the ffiore of this place. The Scottiffi com¬ 
manders who fell in battle were buried in a rifing field 
near the village ; three or four perfons were interred in 
one grave, on each fide of which was a large ftone, a third 
was placed acrofs the grave, fupported at the extremities 
by the fide-ftones; and in this rude manner the warriors 
lay entombed. Some years ago the proprietor of the field 
demoliflied thefe repofitories of the dead, leaving only one 
(a fpecial favour!), which ferves to give an idea of the 
whole. It is fourteen miles fouth of Greenock, and 
thirty-two north of Ayr. 
LAR'GUS, a Latin poet who wrote a poem on the ar¬ 
rival of Antenor in Italy, where he built the town of Pa¬ 
dua. He compofed with eafe and elegance, Ovid, ex Pone. 
LA'RI, a town of Etruria: ten miles eaft of Leghorn. 
LAR'IBUS COLO'NIA, in ancient geography, a Ro¬ 
man colony in Africa, fituated on an eminence, five leagues 
north-eaft from Sicca. 
LARICAX'AS, a province of South America, in the 
country of Buenos Ayres, about 240 miles from eaft to 
weft, and 75 from north to fouth. The temperature of 
the air is different in different parts, and fome of its pro- 
dufts are the fame with thofe of Carabaya, by which it is 
terminated to the northward. This whole province 
abounds in gold-mines, whofe metal is of fo fine a qua¬ 
lity, that its ftandard is 23 carats 3 grains. In this pro¬ 
vince is the celebrated mountain of Sunchuli, in which 
about fifty years fince, was difeovered a gold-mine, re¬ 
markably rich, and of the ftandard above-mentioned ; but, 
when in its higheft profperity, it was unfortunately over¬ 
flowed ; and, notwithftanding prodigious fums were ex¬ 
pended in endeavours to drain it, all the labour and ex¬ 
pence, from the works being injudicioufly condufted, were 
thrown away. 
LAR'ICE, in ancient geography, the name given by 
Ptolemy to the province of India now called Guzerat. 
LARICFNA, f. [Latin.] The gum of the larch-tree ; 
turpentine. 
LARIGO'T, f. [French.] An acute flop in the organs 
of France, a 3d above the major 17th, and an oftave above 
the 12th in our organs, which would be a 19th above the 
diapafon. 
LA'RIK, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the govern¬ 
ment of Sivas : eight miles north-north-eaft of Amafieh. 
LA'RIN, f. An Indian and Arabian weight, equal to 
jog- drams. 
LA'RING, a town of the duchy of Stiria : four miles 
north-eaft of Marburg. 
LARI'NO, a town of Naples, in the Molife, the fee of 
a bifliop, luffragan of Benevento: twenty-five miles north- 
eall of Moiife, and forty-two north of Benevento. Lat. 
41.47. N. Ion. 14. 50. E. 
LA'RIO, a department of Italy, occupying the whole 
of the weft coaft of the weft bank of the lake of Como, 
anciently Larius Lacus. It contains a population of 
137,264 inhabitants, who eleft twelve deputies. Como 
is the capital. 
LARIO'ZO, a town of the ifland of Cuba: forty-eight 
miles eaft of Spirito Santo. 
LARIS'SA, a town of European Turkey, and capital 
of Theffaly, on the river Peneus, near the celebrated 
mountain Olympus, inhabited by Chriltians, Turks, and 
Jews, the former of whom have an archbifhop and feveral 
churches. The Turks have leveral mofques. In the year 
1(169, 
