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fhip of Licinius by promifing him in marriage his filler 
Conftantia, which alliance took place in 313, when the 
two emperors had an interview at Milan, and joined in an 
edift in favour of the Chriftians. In’the fame year Maxi- 
min invaded the territories of Licinius, and took Byzan¬ 
tium and Heraclea; his fuccefs was very ihort-lived ; for 
Licinius advanced to meet him, and by his military fkill 
obtained a complete viftory. Maximin died foon after, 
and Licinius fticceeded to his authority over the provinces 
of the Ealt. The conqueror, wdio was harffi, ignorant, 
and brutal, knew not how to life his fuccefs with gene- 
rofity, or even with humanity: he put to death a great 
number of perlbns, and among others Valeria, the widow 
of Galerius, who had been a great benefactor to Licinius. 
Thisdady had taken refuge at his court; but, terrified with 
his favage conduct, Ihe took flight, and with her aged 
motherWandered long in difguife through the provinces ; 
but, being at length difeovered, they were both beheaded, 
and their bodies thrown into the fea. After the difplay 
ot thefe barbarities, the two emperors did not live long in 
peace. A civil war broke out between them, in which 
the firft battle was fought in 315 : Licinius was vanquiffied, 
and, after another attempt or two to maintain his ground 
againft his rival, he was obliged to fue for peace, which 
he obtained on the condition of putting to death Valens, 
whom he had lately created Caefar, and of refigning all 
his European provinces. In 317 he created his own fon 
C’cefar, and peace w'as maintained during the eight follow¬ 
ing years. About this period, Licinius, growing fulpi- 
cious of his Chrifiian fubjefts, who feemed to he attached 
to his rival, began to banifh them from about his perlon 
and palace, and to prohibit bifhops from vifiting each 
other, and from holding councils and aflemblies. By de¬ 
grees the reftriftions that were laid upon them were ex¬ 
changed for direct and cruel perfecution, which produced 
another civil war in 323. The rivals met near Adriano- 
ple ; and, after fome time fpent in fkirmifhes, a general en¬ 
gagement was brought on, in which the fuperior fkill of 
Conltantine, and valour of his European foldiers, gained 
a very decifive viftory over the much more numerous but 
lefs warlike hod of Licinius. The vanquifhed emperor 
fhut himfelf up within the walls of Byzantium, while his 
fleet was deftroyed in the Hellefpont by Crifpus, the fon 
of Conlfantine. Licinius efcaped to Chalcedon, and, col¬ 
lecting a new army, made one more effort to oppofe his 
foe; but, being again defeated, he retired to Nicomedia, 
rather with a view of gaining time for negociation than 
with the hope of effectual oppofition. His wife Con¬ 
ftantia, the filter of Conlfantine, interceded with her bro¬ 
ther in favour of her hufhand,and obtained a folemn pro- 
mife, confirmed by an oath, that, after the refignation of 
the purple, Licinius fhoul -1 be permitted to pafs the re¬ 
mainder of his days in peace and affluence. Licinius ac¬ 
cordingly laid himfelf and the infignia of his office at the 
feet of the conqueror ; and foon afterwards was fent to 
Theffaionica, which had been chofen as the place of his 
confinement. His imprifonment was foon terminated by 
death, but whether this was cccafioned by a tumult of the 
foldiers, or by a decree of the fenate, is uncertain : how¬ 
ever, his memory was branded with infamy, His flatties 
were throw n down, and, by a rafh edift, all his laws, and 
the judicial proceedings of his reign, were at once abo- 
lifhed. By this victory of Conftantine, the Roman world 
•was again united under the authority of one emperor. 
Gibbon. 
LiCI'NUS, a barber and freedman of Auguftus, raifed 
by his malter to the rank and dignity of a fenator, merely 
becaufe he hated Pompey’s family. Horat. Art. P. 301. 
LJC'IO, one of the f mailer Lipari Illands. Lat.38.54.. N. 
Ion. 15. 20. E. 
LICITA'TION,/! [from the Lat. licco, to fet a price 
for fale.] The aft of expofing to fale to the highelt bidder. 
Scott. 
LICK, a towm of Pruflia, with a caftle built in the year 
3272, It received the privileges of a town in the year 
LlC 
1662. The country fullered extremely by the Tartars ini' 
the year 1656, till they were defeated-at Warfaw. It is 
eighty miles fouth-eafl of Konigfberg. Lat. 53. 39. N. 
Ion. 22. 38. E. 
LICK, a name given to the falt-fprings in the weftern- 
parts of the United States. 
To LICK, v. a. [licean, Sax. Icckcn, Dut. ] To pafs over 
with the tongue.—zEfculapius went about with a dog and 
a fhe-goat, both which he ufed much in his cures°; the 
firft for licking all ulcerated wounds, and the goat’s milk 
for the difeafes of the ftomach and lungs. Temple. —I have 
feen an antiquary lick an old coin, among other trials, a© 
diftinguifti the age of it by its tafte. Addijon. 
A bear’s a favage beaft ; 
Whelp’d without form, until the dam 
Has lick'd it into fliape and frame. Hudibras.. 
To lap ; to take in by the tongue: 
At once pluck out 
The multitudinous tongue; let them not lick 
The fweet which is their poifou. Shakefpeare. 
To Lick up. To devour.—Now fhall this company 
lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licheth up th* 
grafs. Numbers. 
When luxury has lick'd up all thy pelf. 
Curs’d by thy neighbours, thy truftees, tbyfelf: 
Think how pofterity will treat thy name. Pope. 
LICK, /. A tafte. A blow ; rough ufage. A low word. 
—He turned upon me as round as a chafed boar, and gavo 
me a lick acrofs the face. Drydtn. 
LICK'ER, f. One that licks. 
LICK'ERISH, Lick'erous, or Lic/uorish, adj. [!ic- 
cejia, a glutton, Sax. The firft feems to be the proper 
way of fpelling the word, which has no affinity with li¬ 
quor, but with like or lick. ] Nice in the choice of food.—■ 
Voluptuous men facrifice all fubftantial fatisfaftions to a 
liquorijh palate. L'EJlrange. —Eager ; greedy to l wallow ; 
eager not with hunger but guft.—It is never tongue-tied, 
where fit commendation, whereof womankind is fo lickeri/h, 
is offered unto it. Sidney. — Certain rare manuferipts, lought 
in the moll remote parts by Erpenius, the molt excellent 
linguift, had been left to his widow, and W'ere upon fale 
to the jefuits, liquorijh chapmen of all fuch ware. Wotton. 
— In fome provinces they were fo liquorJh after man’s ftelh, 
that they would luck the blood as it run from the dying 
man. Locke. 
Strephon, fond boy, delighted, did not know 
That it w as love that fhin’d in fhining maid ; 
But lick'rous, poifon’d, fain to her would go. Sidney. 
In vain he proffer’d all his goods to fave 
His body, deftin’d to that living grave ; 
The liquorijh hag rejefts the pelf with fcorn. 
And nothing but the man would ferve her turn. Dryden. 
Nice; delicate 5 tempting the appetite. This fenfe is 
doubtful : 
Would’ft.fhou feek again to trap me here 
With lickerjk baits, fit to enfnare a brute ? Milton. 
LICK'ERISHNESS, f Nicenefs of palate. 
LICK'ING,/. The aft of palling over with the tongue j 
a beating. 
LICK'ING, a navigable river of America, in Kentucky, 
which riles on the weftern confines of Virginia, interlocks 
with the head-waters of Kentucky-river, runs in a north- 
weft direftiori upwards of 180 miles, and by a mouth 150 
yards wide through the fouth bank of Ohio-river, oppo- 
fite to Fort Wafhington. On this river are iron-works 
and numerous-falt-fprings. Its chief branch is navigable 
nearly feventy miles'. From Limeftone to this river the 
country is very rich, and covered with corn, rye-grafs, 
and natural clover. MorJ'e. 
LICKING CREE'K, a river of Maryland, which runs 
into the Potomack in lat. 39. 38.N. Ion. 78. 5. W. 
LICKINCS 
