A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

692 LAB EO. LABIEO.
IXI'ON, a:surname of Demetrius, the granm- survive Brutus, who, he was told, had pronounced
marian, of Adramyttium. [Vol. I. p. 968, a.] his name with a sigh before his death. Having'IXIO'NIDES; a patronymic, applied by Ovid dug in his tent a hole of the length of his. body,
(Met. viii. 566). to Peirithous, the son of Ixion; lie settled his worldly affairs, and sent messages to
but the plural, Ixionidae, occurs also as a name of his wife and children. Then, taking the hand of
the Centaurs. (Lucan, vi. 386.) [L. S.] his most faithful slave, he turned him round (as
I'XIUS (~Irlos), a surname of Apollo, derived was usual in the ceremony of manumission), and,
from a district of the island of Rhodes which was giving him his sword, presented his throat to be
called Ixiae or Ixia. (Steph. Byz. s. v. J'Iiac; stabbed, and was buried in his tent in the hole
comp. Strab. xiv. p. 655.) [- L. S.] which he had dug. (Schol. ad Horat. Sat. i. 3. 83;
IYNX (Ivsyt),a daughter of Peitho and Pan, Plut. Brut. 12; Appian, B. C. iv. 135.) [J. T. G.]
or of Echo, She endeavoured to charm Zeus, or LA'BEO, M. (?) ANTI'STIUS, the son of the
make him, by magic means, fall in love with Io; subject of the preceding article, adopted the repubin consequence of which Hera metamorphosed her lican opinions of his father, and finally eclipsed him
into the bird called Iynx (iynx torquilla). (Schol. in reputation as a jurist. His praenomen is unad Tlheocrit. ii. 17, ad Pind. Pyth. iv. 380, Nem. certain. The Scholiast on Horace (Sat. i. 3. 83)
iv. 56; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 310.) According to calls him Marcus, and Gellius (xx. 1) calls him
another story, she was a daughter of Pierus, and as Quintus. In his youth he was prompted by his
she and her sisters had presumed to enter into a active intellect to cultivate philosophy, and to apply
musical contest with the Muses, she was changed himself to various branches of learning. He beinto the bird Iynx. (Anton. lib. 9.) This bird, the came a proficient in logic, philosophy, and archaeosymbol of passionate and restless love, was given logy, and turned these acquirements to profit in
by Aphrodite to Jason, who, by turning it round the cultivation of law. In tracing the origin and
and pronouncing certain magic words, excited the signification of Latin words he was peculiarly
love of Medeia. (Pind. Pyth. iv. 380, &c.; Tzetz. skilful, and by this kind of knowledge he was
i..) [L. S.J able to unravel many legal knots. He received
IZATES. [ARSACES XIX. p. 358, a.] the elements of his legal education from Trebatius,
but he also listened to the instruction of Tubero
and Ofilius. Pomponius states that he was a legal
L. innovator (plurima innovare instituit, Dig. 1. tit. 2.
s. 2. ~ 47), whereas, the letter of Capito, cited by
LABDA (Aa'9a), a daughter of the Bacchiad Gellius, makes him out to be a strict adherent to
Amphion, and mother of Cypselus, by Eetion. ancient usages (raturm taimen nil haberet, nisi quod
(Herod. v. 92.) According to the Etymologicum justuns sanctumque esse in Romanis antiquitatibus
Magnum (p. 199), her name was derived from the legisset, Gell. xiii. 12). Under the article CAPITO
fact of her feet being turned outward, and thus re- [Vol. I. p. 600], we have mentioned the manner in
sembling the letter A. [Comp. CYPrsELUS.] [L. S.] which it has been attempted to reconcile these
LABDA5CIDAE (AagbaKiacu), a patronymic testimonies. Though in private law Labeo was an
from Labdacus, and frequently used not only to innovator, he held fast to the ancient forms of the
designate his children, but his descendants in constitution. The anecdote of his refusing to obey
general, and is therefore applied not only to Oedi- the summons of a tribune, while he admitted the
pus, his son, but to Polyneices, Eteocles, and right of a tribune to arrest (Gell. 1. c.), is an inAntigone. The family of the Labdacidae is par- stance of his pertinacity in matters of public right.
ticularly famous in ancient story, on account of the On the other hand, his resort in his own case to
misfortunes of all that belonged to it. (Soph. codicilli (a word used in very different senses' in
Antigy. 560; Stat. Theb. vi. 451, and many other Roman and in English law) instead of a formal
passages.) [L. S.] testament, proves that he was not averse to every
LA'BDACUS (Adiatacos), a son of the Theban kind of legal novelty. (Inst. tit. 25, pr.) It is
king, Polydorus, the son of Cadmus, by Nycteis, also a proof of the great authority he possessed,
who was descended from a Spartan family. Lab- that codicilli were universally recognised as admisdacus lost his father at an early age, and was placed sible, after the precedent which Labeo had afforded
under the guardianship of Nycteus, and afterwards in his own case. If Labeo, our jurist, be referred
under that of Lycus, a brother of Nycteus. When to iul Dig. 34. tit. 2. s. 32. ~ 6, we are in possession
Labdacus had grown up to manhood, Lycus sur- of a clause of his will, containing a bequest to his
rendered the government to him; and on the death wife Neratia.
of Labdacus, which occurred soon after, Lycus The rugged republicanism of Labeo (libertas
again undertook the guardianship of his son Laius, quaedasm nimia atque vecors) was not pleasing to
the father of Oedipus. (Paus. ix. 5. ~ 2; Eurip. Augustus, and it has been supposed by many that
Here. Fuilr. 27; Apollod. iii. 5. ~ 5; comp. NYC- the Labeone insanior of Horace (Sat. i. 3. 80)
Tuvs.) [L. S.] was a stroke levelled against the jurist, in order to
LA'BEO, Q. ANTI'STIUS, a Roman jurist, one please the emperor; though Wieland has suggested
of those disciples of Servius Sulpicius, who are that, at the time when Horace wrote his' first book'stated by Pomponins (Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2. ~ 44) to have of Satires, Labeo the jurist was probably too young
written books which were digested by Aufidius and undistinguished to provoke such sarcasm.
Namusa. He -was the father of the more eminent In the year B. c. 18 Labeo was one of those who
jurist of the same name, who lived under Augustus. were appointed by Augustus to nominate senators,
In his attachment to thevancient republican liberty, and, inthe exercise of his'power, he nominated M.
he joined the conspiracy of Brutus and was one of Lepidus, who was disliked by the emperor. On
the murderers of Julius-Caesar. Constant to the being threatened with punishment byAugustus, for
party he had espoused, he was present at the battle selecting an unfit person, he answered, " Each of us
of Pharsalia, and, after the defeat, was unwilling to'has a right to exercise his own discretion, and what