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filled with final! (hells: there Is, an engraving of it in 
Grofe’s Military Antiquities, vol. ii. A fimiiar trumpet 
is engraved in Montfaucon’s Roman Antiquities. This 
inftrument frequently appears on ancient medals as a fym- 
bol of war, and is terminated with the head of a boar, 
and fometimes with that of a fnake, as on an ancient fa¬ 
mily-medal of Albinus, (truck during the time of the re¬ 
public, between the fil'd Punic war and the reign of Au- 
guftus. See the article Music. 
LITYER'SA, f. in ancient mufic, the fong of the 
reapers. Theocritus, Apollodorus, Julius Pollux, Suidas, 
and others, mention this fong, and call it lityerfa , from 
Lyti urfas, the natural fon of Midas; a rude and ferocious 
pi "nee, who obliged ft rangers to work with him in the 
fields at harv.eft-time, and thofe who were too feeble and 
unable to work, he put to death. Hercules killed him in 
the life-time of his father. Julius 'Pollux lays that this 
fong was mournful, and fang round the (hearers to con- 
foie Midas for the death of his fon. 
1.1T'ZENDORF, a town of Bavaria, in the biftiopric 
of Bamberg : fix miies eaft-north-eaft of Bamberg. 
LIV O'E, a finall iftand of Denmark, in Lymfiord Gulf3 
its form is like a tadpole, with a long tail running out 
from its fouthern (hore, a mile and a half in length, called 
Liv Tap. On the iftand is a village. Lat. 56. 53. N. Ion. 
9. 6. E. 
LIVA'DIA, a province of European Turkey, bounded 
on the north by Theffaly, on the eaft by the Archipelago, 
on the fouth by the Gulf of Lepanto, which feparates it 
from the Morea, and the Gulf of Engia, and on the weft 
by the Mediterranean ; one hundred and eighty miles in 
length from north-weft to fouth-eaft, and about thirty-five 
in its mean breadth. This province comprehends what 
was properly called Greece, which included Acarnania, 
Etolia, Ozolsea, Locris, Phocis, Doris, Epiknemidia, Bceo- 
tia, Megara, and Attica. In this country are the cele¬ 
brated mountains, fo much fpoken of by the ancients, 
Parnaffus, Helicon, and Cythasron. The places of moil 
note at prefent are Lepanto, Livadia, and Athens. 
LIVA'DIA, a city of European Turkey, in a province 
of the fame name ; it is a large populous town, fituated 
on the Gulf of Lepanto, built round a mountain, which 
terminates in a peak, having on it a caftle. It carries on 
a pretty good trade : 324. miles weft-fouth-weft of Con- 
ftantinople, twenty-eight north of Corinth, and feventy- 
two welt of Lariffa. Lat. 38. 37. N. ion. 23. 54. E. 
LIVADOS'TA, a town of European Turkey, in Liva- 
dia, on the eaft extremity of the Gulf of Lepanto : twenty 
miles fouth-eaft of Livadia. 
LIVARO'T, a town of France, in the department of 
the Calvados : eight miles fouth-fouth-weft of Lifieux, 
and fifteen eaft-north-eaft of Falaiff. 
LIV'AT WATER, a river of Scotland, which rifes 
near Scalan, in the fouth part of the county of Banff, and 
juns into the Avon two miles above Kirkmichael. 
LIU'BIM, a town of Ruflla, in the government of Ja- 
rofiavl : forty miles north-eaft of Jaroflavl. Lat. 58. 55. N. 
Ion. 40. 30. E. 
LIU'BITCH, a town of Ruftla, in the government of 
Tchernigov, on the Dnieper: twenty miles weft of Tcher- 
nigov. Lat. 51. 22. N. Ion. 26. 44. E. 
LILT'DER, a town of Sweden, in the province of Sma- 
land : thirty-one miles weft of Calmar. 
To LIVE, v.n. [lypan, lypgan, Sax.] To be in a 
ftate of animation 3'to be not dead : 
Is’t night’s predominance, or the day’s (hame. 
That darkne.s dots the (ace of earth intomb. 
When living day fltould kifs it ? Sk%kefpeare's Macbeth. 
To fave the living, and revenge the dead, 
Ag?inft one warrior’s arms all Troy they led, Dryden. 
To pafs life in any certain manner with regard to habits, 
good or ill, happinefs or inifery.—O death, how bitter is 
the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at reft ! Ec- 
clus. xli. Parker, in his fermon before them. 
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touched them fo near for their living, that they went near 
to touch him for his life. Hayward. —A late prelate, of a 
remarkable zeal for the church, were religious to be tried 
by lives, would have lived down the pope, and the whole 
confiftory. Atterbury. —If we are firmly refolved to live up: 
to the dictates of reaifon, without any regard to wealth 
and reputation, we may go through life with fteadinefs' 
and pleafure. Addifon. —To continue in life.—The way to 
live long mutt be, to ufe our bodies fo as is mod agreeable- 
to the rules of temperance. Ray on the Creation. 
See the minutes how they run 5 
How many make the hour full complete, 
How many hours bring about the day. 
How many days will ffnifh up the year, 
How many years a mortal man may live. Shakefpeare. i 
To live, emphatically ; to be in a ftate of happinefs 5 
Live while you live, the Epicure would fay. 
And fnatch the pleafures of the prefent day j 
Live while you live, the facred preacher cries. 
And give to God each moment as it flies. 
Lord, in my views let both united be : 
I live to pleafure when I live to thee. Doddridge. 
To be exempt from death, temporal or fpiritual.—My 
ftatutes and judgments, if a man do, he (hall live in thenu 
Lev. xviii. 5.—He died for us, that, whether we wake or 
deep, we (hould live together with him. 1 Thejf. v. 10.—= 
To remain undeftroyed.—It was a miraculous providence 
that could make a veffel, fo ill-manned, live upon fea; 
that kept it from being dafhed againft the hills, or over¬ 
whelmed in the deeps. Burnet. 
Mark how the (hifting winds from weft arife. 
And what collected night involves the (kies! 
Nor can our (haken veffels live at lea. 
Much lefs againft the tempeft force their way. Dryde'/tt 
To continue ; not to be loft.—Men’s evil manners live in 
brafsj their virtues we write in water. Shakefpeare » 
Sounds which addrefs the ear are loft and die 
In one ftiort hour; but that which (trikes the eye 
Lives long upon the mind ; the faithful fight 
Engraves the knowledge with a beam of light. IVatis * 
To converfe; to cohabit: followed by with s 
The (hepherd-fwains (hall dance and fing, 
For thy delight each May morning, . 
If thefe delights thy mind may move. 
Then live with me, and be my love. Shakefpeare . 
To feed.—Thofe animals that live upon other animals 
liave'their flelh more alkaiefcent than thofe that live upon 
vegetables. Arbnthnot. —To maintain one’s felf; to be fup- 
ported.—A molt notorious thief; lived all his life-time of 
fpoils and robberies. Speifer. —They which minifter about 
holy things, live of the things of the temple. 1 Cor. ix. 13. 
—The number of foldiers can never be great in propor¬ 
tion to that of people, no more than of tnofe that are idle 
to that of thofe who live ay labour. Temple.—He had been 
molt of his time in good fervice, and had fomething to 
live on now he was old. Temple . —To be in a ftate of mo¬ 
tion or vegetation : 
Cool groves and living lakes 
Give after toilfome days a foft repefe at night. Dryden ». 
To be unexringuilhed : 
Pure oil and incenfe on the Ere they throw ; 
Thele gifts the greedy flames to dull devour. 
Then on the living coals red wine they pour. Dryden i- 
LIVE, adj. [from alive.'] Quick,; not dead.—.If one 
man’s ox hurt another that he die, they (hall fell the live 
ox, and divide the money. Exodus. —Aftive; not extin- 
guilhed.—A louder found was produced by the impetu-- 
ous eruptions of the halituous flames of the faltpetre, upon 
catting of a live coal upon it. Boyle. 
LIV'E-EVER, in botany. See Sed.um, 
