r 
Id. Cone. 
LEG 
LEM 
Id. Ccuicio legitima. C : v. AStas legiti- 
ma ad petendam /Edilitatem, prescribed 
bij laic. Ovid. Legitima conjux. Qiuntd. 
Legitiunis filius (to which notions is 
opposed). Cic. Legitimum iinpediinen- 
tum. Id. Legitima: bora:, li. c. qua; le- 
gibus alicui ad agendum conceduntur. 
Frontih. Legitima mensura. Odd. Le- 
gitimo eqtio merere, h. e. publico, et le- 
gibus dato. Id. Legitima servas credita 
rura iide, h. e. qure legibus prtecipitur. 
Sueton. Legitima pmna, li. e. appointed 
bylaw. Pandect. Legitimum crimen, h. e. 
laid down in the laws. — Hence, Legiti¬ 
ma, oruin, n. certain customs or rights 
according to laic. JVepos. Legitimi 3 qui- 
busdam° confectis.-IT Also, some¬ 
times, legal, relating to law. Oell. and 
Justinian. -IT Also, figur. of those 
things which are done according to some 
fixed law or custom. Cic. 
LEGITS, as, for lectito. Prisonn. 3 
LEGiuNCuLA (dimin. of legio), ;e, f. a 
2 small legion. Civ. 
LEGS (lex), as, avi, atum, a. L to send 
as an ambassador, depute, despatch, dzo- 
oreAAco. Cic. aliquein.-IT Also, to 
appoint as lieutenant, or legale of a general 
or governor. Cic. aliquem sibi, h. e. to 
choose for his deputy or lieutenant. - 
IT Also, to appoint by a last will, to leave 
by will, leave or bequeath as a legacy. Cic. 
alicui pecuniam. Id. alicui aliquid ab 
aliquo, h. e. to leave a legacy so that the 
legatee shall not receive it immediately 
from the legator, bat by the hands of the 
heir. Id. Uxori testamento legat gran- 
dem pecuniam a lilio, si qui natus es- 
set: ab secundo herede nihil legat.- 
IT Also, to charge with, entrust. Plant. 
alicui negotium. 
LEGS (Xeyw), is, egi, ectum, a. 3. to take 
away piece by piece, whether it be done 
with the hands, or with the eye, the 
mind, &c. Hence, to collcot^gather, cull, 
pick up. Cic. nuces. Civ. spbjia cteso- 
ruin. Virg. (lores. Tibull. poiftaabar 
boribus. Senee. ancoras, h. e. to -weigh 
anchor. — Hence, to wind up,furl. 
vela, h. e. to draw in, furl. Id. Pgr 
extrema fila legunt, h. e. spin the l 
threads. So, also, of Theseus, Ovid. Fi¬ 
la legere, h. e. to gather in. Prop. Sta¬ 
men legere, h. e. to wind on a clew. — 
Also, to steal, duct, ad Her. sacrum. 
Horat. sacra Divum, h. e. to commit 
sacrilege. Cucil. ap. Non. omnia visca 
tis manibus. Figur. Plaut. sermo 
nem alicujus, h. e. to listen attentively to 
any one's discourse. -IT Also, to run 
or pass over, pass by, go through. Ov¬ 
id. saltus, h. e. to run through. Senee. 
Luna Cffilum freno propiore legit. 
Hence, Virg. vestigia alicujus, h. e. to 
follow his footsteps, tread in his footsteps. 
Virg. tortos orbes, h. e. to wander 
through winding circles. —Particularly, in 
ships” to sail through or over, pass by, 
coast along. Ovid, tequor. Civ. oram 
Halite. Hence, figur. Virg. oram lito- 
,ris primi, h. e. to keep close to the shore, 
in writing, not to enter deeply into a mat¬ 
ter, _IV Also, to run over with one’s 
.eyes, to see, descry, observe, survey. 
Virg. omnes adversos. — Also, to run 
over, to read, peruse, dvayivaxJKio. Cic. 
libros Id. Legi apud Clitomachnm, 
h. e. in ejus scriptis. Plin. Ep. Male 
legere, h. e. to read badly, with a 
faulty tone or accent. Plin. Legens, li. e. 
iector. — Hence, to read or deliver lec¬ 
tures on any thing, to explain, interpret, 
illustrate. Sueton. Lucilii satyras le- 
gisse se apud Archelaum prsdicant. — 
Also, to read aloud, read off, read to, re¬ 
cite. Plin. Ep. orationes. Hence, of 
the censor. Cic. and Civ. Senatum le¬ 
gere, h. e. to call over the senate, to read 
aloud and publicly the names of the sena¬ 
tors in order, and thus to point our. the 
princeps senatus, and to show what former 
members were retained or not, and a 1 so what 
new members were elected. Hence, Civ. 
Princeps in senatu lectus est, or, simply, 
Id. Princeps lectus est, h. e. was read 
aver as the first in the senate. -IT Also, 
to choose, select, elect. Virg. soceros. 
Id. Vir virum legit, h. c. every one chooses 
out his man. sc. in order to fight with 
him: also used, when in raising a le¬ 
vy, certain men were picked, who in 
their turn each chose one or more tried 
men, to make a picked army ; as, 
Tacit. Apud milituin concionem, adop- 
tari a se Pisonem, more divi Augusti, 
et exemplo militari, quo vir virum le- 
geret, pronuntiat. Hence this phrase is 
used, also, of the choice of senators. 
Sueton. Senatum ad modum pristinuin 
redegit duabus lectionibus : prima ipso- 
rum arbitratu, quo vir virum legit, se- 
cunda suo et Agrippte. Cic. judices, 
h. e. to choose, elect. Civ. milites, h. e. 
to levy or enlist. Phcedr. capillos ali¬ 
cui, h. c. to pick, pull or pluck out . Cic. 
aliquem in senatum, or, Civ. in pa- 
tres, h. e. to elect into the senate, make 
a senator of. Oell. aliquem in judi¬ 
ces. Civ. 2, 18. dictatorem, magis- 
trum equitum. Cic. conditiones nu- 
bendi, li. c. to choose for herself the con 
diiions on which she would be married. 
LEGdLA, ;e, f. Sidon. Legula auris,(per- 
3 haps) the flap of the ear. 
LEGO LEWS (lex), ii, m. one acquainted 
only loith the little niceties of law ,* a petti¬ 
fogger, petty, small-rate lawyer, Sikixvi- 
Koi, Kvflpis- Cic. 
LEGOLOS (lego, ere), i, m. a gatherer, as 
of olives. Varro. Of grapes. Calpurn. 
LEGOMEN (Id.), inis, n. all kinds of 
pulse, as peas, beans, vetches, Scc. a le¬ 
guminous plant, oazpiov. Cic. —-— IT By 
synecdoche, the bean (faha). Virg. 
LEGOMkNTUM, i, n. same as Cegumen. 
3' Oell. 
LEGuMLATAR, or LeGUM LaTAR. See 
Cex and Cator. 
LEIoSTREA, or LIoSTREA (Xeidarpeov), 
3 te, f. an oyster with a smooth shell. Cam- 
prid. 
LELEGEIS, LELEGeIOS. See Celeges. 3 
LELEGES (AsXeyes), um, in. a tribe of the 
Pelasgians living dispersed through vari¬ 
ous places in Greece and Asia Minor. In 
Asia, as in Ionia, Caria and Mysia. 
Virg. In Greece, as in Thessaly. Cu- 
can. In Locris. Plin. Particularly in 
the country of Megara. — Hence, Lele- 
geis (AeA eyyis), idis, f. of or belonging 
to the Celeges. Ovid. — Lelegeius, a, 
um, adj. of or belonging to the Celeges. 
Ovid, moenia, h. e. Megara. Id. litora, 
h. e. Megarensia. 
LEM A (Aijprj), te, f. a ivliite humor, ormat- 
2 ter, concealed in the comers of the eye. 
Plin. 
LEMANNOS, or LEMaNuS, i, m. lacus, 
or without lacus, the lake of Geneva. 
Ctes., Plin., Cucan. 
LEMBuLOS, i, m. dimin. of lembus. Pru 
3 dent. 
Lf.MBOS (A ey/oos), •, m- a s™all, fast- 
2 sailing vessel, a cutter, pinnace, galliot. 
Liv. - - IT Also, a boat. Plaut. and 
Virg. 
LEMMA (A qppa), atis, n. properly, that 
2 which one takes in hand to prove or _ ex¬ 
plain. Hence, matter, theme, subject.. 
Plin. Ep. Lemma sibi sumpsit, quod ego 
interdum versibus ludo, he has chosen 
for a subject. — Hence, a title or argu¬ 
ment of a chapter or poem. Martial. 
Lemmata si quteris cur sint ad scripta, 
docebo: ut, si malueris, lemmata sola 
le<ras. — Also, a poem or epigram. Mar¬ 
tial. Consumpta est uno si lemmate pa 
gina, transis, et breviora sibi, non me- 
liora placent. — Also, a nursery tale, an 
amusing story . Anson. -IT Also, one 
of the premises of a syllogism, a lemma, 
proposition previously assumed. Gell. Et 
vitiuin insidiosum, et sub falsa lem 
matis specie latens.-IT Also, same 
as Arioma. Pctron. 
LEMNIACOS, and LeMNIAS. See Lem 
VOS. 
LEMNICALA (Lemnos & colo), ®, m. 
3 that inhabits Cemnos. A name given to 
Vulcan. Ovid. Cum sine matre crea- 
tam Lemnicol® stirpem contra data 
feedera vidit, h. e. Erichthonius, son of 
Vulcan. 
LEMNISCaTOS (lemniscus), a, um, adj. 
adorned with a fillet or riband hanging 
down from a garland or croiitv,. —Hence, 
Cic. palma, h. e. properly, a palm- 
branch ornamented with ribands, which 
used to be given to a gladiator or gen¬ 
eral after a signal victory. — Cicero uses 
it of a murder attended with great ad¬ 
vantages to the murderer. 
482 
LEiN 
LEMNISCUS (Aij/mowoj), i, m. a ribana 
2 hanging down on garlands or crowns, 
originally of the bark of a linden-tree. 
Plin. 1(3,25. Afterwards of precious ma¬ 
terials, and at last of gold or silver 
plates. Plin. 21, 4. — A crown was the 
reward of conquest; but the honor was 
greater, when such a band was fixed to 
it. — These bands were also awarded 
separately as an honor. Civ. and Suet. 
-IT Also, a tent or roll of lint put into 
wounds and sores. Vcget. 
LeMNIOS. See Cemnos. 
LeMNAS, or LEMNOS, i, f. Aripvos, Cem¬ 
nos, now Stattmene, an island in the JP- 
(Tcau sea, where Vulcan was especially 
worshiped. Nepos., Arc.-IT Hence, 
Lemmas, adis, adj. f. Cemnian, of or 
belonginrr to Cemnos; a Cemnian woman 
Stat. Exsul Lenmias, h. e. Hypsipyle. 
Ovid.. Lemniasi, Greek dat. pi. fur Lem- 
niadibus.- II Also, Lemniacus, a, 
Ann. of or bclonfrinrr In 
mauiuua. - ■■ --- ..— ; 
um, adj. Cemnian, of or belonging to 
Cemnos. Stat. antra. Martial, and 
Stat. eaten®.-IT Also, Lemnius, a, 
um, adj. Cemnian, of or belonging to 
Cemnos. Virg. Lemnius pater, or Ov¬ 
id. (absol.) Lemnius, h. e. Vulcan. Id. 
turba, h. c. the Cemnian women, who in 
one night slew all the males. Cic. ru- 
brica. = Id. Lemnium furtiim, h. e. 
furtum ignis. Nepos. Lemnii, the in¬ 
habitants of Cemnos. 
LE.MONI A tribus, a Roman rustic tribe. Cic. 
LEMoNIUM, and LIMoNTUM (Xcipw- 
viov); ii, n. the herb wild-beet. Plin. 
LEMOReS (for Remures, from Remus), 
um, m. the general name of the souls of 
the departed”of which the good were wor¬ 
shiped as tutelary deities of houses (la¬ 
res) ) the bad ones walked about at night as 
ghosts or spectres (larv®). Horat., Ov¬ 
id. and Apul. — In order to appease 
these ghosts and expel them from their 
houses, the Romans celebrated a festi¬ 
val called CSrnuria. Ovid. 
LEMuRIA, um, n. See Cemures. 
LENA (leno), is, I. a bawd, procuress. 
Ovid., Propert., Tibull., &c. —— IT Fig¬ 
ur. an attraction, allurement, Ovid. Vox 
sua lena fait. Cic. Quasi sui sit lena 
natura ? — Also, as an adj. or in apposi¬ 
tion with a subst. Ovid. Lena anus, 
h. e. an old bawd. Claudian. Lena pic- 
LENiEOS (AyraTo;), a, um, adj. of or re- 
3 lating to Bacchus or wine. Virg. Le- 
ncei latices. Id. Lenreum honorem li- 
hare Jovi, or, Stat. Len®a dona, A. e. 
wine. — Also, absol. Lemeus, i, m. Bac¬ 
chus- Virg. ., o 
LeNE (lenis), for lender. Ovid. J 
LENiMEN (lento), inis, n. a softening, 
3 alleviation, mitigation, assuagement,^ 
charm, ryziapa, peiXiypa. Horn . - 
tudo laborum dulce lenimen. Omit. 
Sollicitfe lenimen dulce senect®. 
LeNIMENTUM (Id.), i, n. same as Lem- 
2 men. Tacit. . .. a 
LeNIA (lenis), is, ivi and u, 
to soften, mitigate, calm, aU‘vmtc, as 
suaire, allay, appease, Unify, ,P acl 'j:r 
mhush, soothe, still, charm, imam, k> ?A«, 
lenem facio, mulceo, mitigo,) ' • 
to, minuo. . Cic. odium. Wj 
pe lenivi iratum. Id. muni 
Id. animos. Id. Te dies 1 me (a 
pos. Adeo erat incAsus, ut, r 
spe maximarum rerurn, len f enl 
set. Sallust. Lenire ammum ferocem. 
Virg. dolentcm s ola , nd q 0 .;„ er f )S ’rogan- 
fd- seditionem. Ovid. sup. somno 
do. Id. requie dolores. r . Ce¬ 
cilias. Terent. miser a g y usL a tro- 
pos. invidiam obseqtuo. at.e. Virg. 
citatem facti, to soften, tumen tem. 
timorem. Id. nu y jj e re, A - e - 
Plant. Aliquem lemtum „ e . 
lenire. Propcit. Lena m oras, 
to lessen their anguish- . cum 
h. e. dolorem dilationis. ^ m bene 
sale panis latrantem Sallust- ino- 
leniet, shall still or gaiet. S ^ 
piam frumenti, to render Ulera^ 
Nuces lenmntsapore ? m lenit et 
sweeten. Id. Laps. jjorat. Len ' r . 8 
mollit, li. e. lender ciet p ;i Lenire arti- 
