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-710 LODIXP LOPE.
LIXAE. [CAL.oNES.] 83.) It was also used as a carpet (ancilla lodicu.
LOCA'TI ET CONDUCTI ACTIO. [Lo- lan in paviimento diligecter ettendit, Petron. Sat.
c(ATlo.] 20). The Romans obtained these blankets from
LOCAITIO, CONDUICTIO, is one of those Verona. (Mart. xiv. 152). Their lodix was nearly,
contracts which are made merely by consent, with- if not altogether, the same as the sagulsue worn by
out the observation of any peelh iar form. The con- the Gernanls. (Tac. Gems'l. 6.) [SAGUM.] [J. Y.J
tract might be either a locatio conductio rerum, or LOGISTAE (o/yrTaOl). [EUTHYNE.]
a locatio conductio operarum. In the locatio con- LOGOGRAPHI (yoypcidapo0), is a name apductio rerum, he who promises tlheuse of the thing, plied by the Greeks to two distinct classes of
is locator, he who promises to give a sum of money persons.
for the use is conductor: if the thingis:a dwelling- 1. To the e-alier Greek historLans previous to
house, the conductor is called inquilinus; if it is Herodotus, though Tlhucydides (i. 21) applies the
cultivable land, he is called colonus. The locatio name logographer to all historians previous to himconductio operarum consists either in giving certain self, and thus includes Heirodotts among the numservices for a fixed price, or giving that which is ber. The Ionians were the first of the Greeks
the result of labour, as an article of furniture, or a who cultivated history; and the first logographer,
house. He for whom the service is done, or the who lived about Olymnp. 60, was Cadmus, a native
thing is made, is called locator: he Who under- of Miletus, who wrote a history of the foundation
takes to produce the thing is conductor or redemp- of his native city. The characteristic feature of all
tor. (Hor. Carm. iii. 1.) the logographers previous to Herodotus is, that
The determination of a fined price or sum of they seem to have aimed more at amusing their
money (meirces, pensio) is an essential part of the hearers or readers tian at imparting accurate
contract. When lands were let, the merces might historical knowledge. They described in prose the
consist in a part of the produce. (Dig. 4. tit. 65. mythological subjects and traditions which had
s. 21.) When the parties have agreed about the previously been treated of by the epic and espeobject and the price, the contract is completed; and cially by the cyclic poets. The omissions in the narthe parties have severally the actiones locati et con- ratives of their predecessors were probably filled up
ducti for enforcing the obligatio. (Dig. 19. tit. 2.) by traditions derived from other quarters, in order
This being the nature of the contract of locatio to produce, at least:ih form, aoennected history. In
et conductio, it was a matter of doubt sometimes many cases they were mere collections of local and
whether a contract was locatio et conductio or genealogical traditions. (Thirlwall, Iist. of Greece,
something else: when a man made a pair of shoes ii. p. 127, &c. * MUller, Iist. of Greek Lit. i. p.
or suit of clothes for another, it was doubted whether 206, &c.; XWachsmuth, Haelles. Altertl. ii. 2. p.
the contract was emtio et venditic,, or locatio et con- 443, &c.)
ductio. The better opinion, and that which is con- 2. To persons who wrote judicial speeches or
formable to the nature of the thizg, was -that if a man pleadings zand sold them to those who were in
furnished the materials to the ta'ilor or:hoemaker, want of them. These persons were called Aoit was a contract of locatio etcod-tectio: if the tailor yosrotol as well as AosyoTypdo.. Antiphon, the
or shoemaker furnished the materials, it was a con- orator, nvas the first who practised this art at
tract of emtio et venditio. (Gaius, iii. 142, &c.; Athens, towards the close of the Peloponnesian
inst. 3. tit. 24. s. 3, 4.) A doubt also arose.as to war. (Plut. Pit. Dec. O-rat. p. 832, ed. Frankf.;
the nature of the contract when a thing was given Aristot. Rhet. i. 33.) After this tinle the custom
to a man to be used, and he gave the lender another of making and selling speeches became very general,
thing to be used. Sometimes it was doubted and though the persons who practised it were not
whether the contract was Locatio et;Conductio very highly thought of and placed on a par with
or Emtio et Venditio; <as in the ease where a the sophists (Demlosth. de Ials. Leg. pp. 417, 420;
thing was let (locata) for ever, as -was done with Plant. Pseedr. p. 257, c; Anaxim. Rliet. xxxvi. 22
lands belonging to municipia, which wr'e let on and 24; compare Plat. Egtlyde7m, p. 272, a, 289,
the condition that so long as the rent (vectigal) d, 305, a), yet we find that orators of great merit
was paid, neither the conductor nor his heres did not scruple to write speeches of various kinds
could be turned out of the land: but the better for other persons. Thus Lysias wrote for others
opinion was in favour of this being a contract of numerous XAyovs Els 1icacrt-pti rTE aae eovXs rcal
Locatio et Conductio. [EMPHYTEUSIS.] [G. L.] Irpbs dir — las 6EEOV'iUs, and besides 7ras?7'yvpLLOCHUS (XAXos). 1. Spartan [see p. 483]. i cos, EpwrrKors, and urr-'roXucovSs. (Dionys. Hal.
2. Athenian [p. 486.1. 3. MIacedonian [p. 488]. Lys. p. 82, ed. Sylburg; compare Meier and Schbm.
LO'CULUS. [FuNUS, p. 559., b.] Att. Proc. p. 707.) [L. S.]
LOCUPLE'TES or ASSI'DUI, was the LOIDORIAS DIKE (Xos3opias Bif) [KIAname of the Roman citizens who were included in IKEGORIAs DIKE.]
the five classes of the Servian constitution, and. LONCHE (Xd6yXu). [HASTA.]
was opposed to the Prolelarii. The term assi- LOPE (Xirulq, also XcArros, dim. XAc7rto), the
dui seems to have been the older appellation; but ancient Greek name of the ArICTUS, whether
the etymology of both words is very uncertain. consisting of the hide of an animal or of cloth.
(Cic. Top. 2, de Rep. ii. 22; Plin. H. NV. xviii. 3; Having fallen into disuse as a colloquial or prosaic
Festus, s. vv. Assiduus, Locapletes; Becker, RMm. term (Phryn. Eel. p. 461, ed. Lobeck), it was reAlterth. vol. ii. pt. i. pp. 211, 212.) tained, though employed very sparingly, by the
LODIX, dim. LODI'CULA (aloyiiov), a small poets. (Hom. Od. xiii. 224; Apoll. Rhod. ii. 32;
shaggy blanket. (Juv. vii. 66.) Sometimes two Schol. in loe.; Anacreon, Frag. 79; Theocrit.
lodices sewed together were used as the coverlet of xiv. 66; Brunck, Anal. i. 230, ii. 185.) We
a bed. (Mart. xiv. 148.) The Emperor Augustus also find it retained in A;nroaSrVs, literally onse
occasionally wrapt himself in a blanket of this de- wnzo puts on the anicezts, a term properly applicable
scription on account of its warmth. (Sueton. Aug. to those persons who frequented the thersmae in