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

714 LAMIA. LAMPADlUS.
(Philostr. Vit. Apollon. iv. 25; Horat. de Art. Brutus, intreating Brutus to use his influence to
Poet. 340; Isidor. Orig. viii. 11; Apulei. Met. i. assist Lamia in his canvass for the praetorship.
p. 57; comp. Spanheim, ad Callim. Hymn. in He seems to have carried his election, and would
Dian. 67; EMPUSA and MORMOLYCE.) [L. S.] have been praetor in B.c. 43, the year in which
LA'MIA (AdzLa), a celebrated Athenian courte- Cicero was put to~ death. (Cic. pro Sest. 12, in
zan, daughter of Cleanor. She commenced her Pison. 27, post Red. in Sen. 5, ad Att. xiii. 45, ad
career as a flute-player on the stage, in which pro- Fam. xi. 16, 17.) This Lamia seems to be the
fession she attained considerable celebrity, but same as the L. Lamia, praetorius vir, who is said
afterwards abandoned it for that of a hetaera. We to have been placed upon the funeral pile as if
know not by what accident she found herself on dead, and then to have recovered his senses, and
board of the fleet of Ptolemy at the great sea-fight to have spoken after the fire was lighted, when it
off Salamis (B. C. 306), but it was on that occasion was too late to save him from death. (Val. Max.
that she fell into the hands of the young Demetrius, i. 8. ~ 12; Plin. H. N. vii. 52.)
over whom she quickly obtained, the most iun- Lamia was the founder of his family, to whom
bounded influence. Though then already past her he appears to have'bequeathed considerable wealth,
prime, she so completely captivated the young which was acquired by his commercial speculations
prince, that her sway continued unbroken for many as a Roman eques. We see from a letter of Cicere
years, notwithstanding the numerous rivals with to Q. Cornificius that Lamia must have had exwhom she had to contend. It was apparently not tensive commercial transactions in Asia (ad Fam.
so much to her beauty as to her wit and talents xii. 29); and his gardens at Rome (Horti Lamiani),
that she owed her power: the latter were cele- which Cicero speaks of (ad Att.. xii. 21), were a
brated by the comic writers as well as the historians well-known spot even in the time of the emperor
of the period, and many anecdotes concerning her Caligula. (Suet. Calsq. 59.)
have been transmitted to us by Plutarch and 2. L. AELIUS LAntIA, the son of the preceding,
Athenaeus. Like most persons of her class, she and the friend of Horace, was consul in A. D. 3.
was noted for her profusion, and the magnificence He was appointed by Tiberius governor of Syria,
of the banquets which she gave to Demetrius was but was never allowed to enterupon the adminiscelebrated even in those times of wanton extrava- tration of his province. On the death of L. Piso
gance. In one instance, however, she is recorded in A. D. 32, Lamia succeeded him- in the office of
to have made a better use of the treasures which praefectus urbi, but he died in the following year,
were lavished upon her by her lover with almost A. D. 33, and was honoured with a censor's funeral.
incredible profusion, and built a splendid portico (Dion Cass. lviii. 19; Tac. Ann. vi. 27.) Two of
for the citizens of Sicyon, probably at the period Horace's odes are addressed to him. (Carme. i. 26,
when their city was in great measure rebuilt by iii. 17.)
Demetrius. Among, the various flatteries invented 3. L. AELIUS LAMIA AEMILIANUS, belonged
by the Athenians to please Demetrius was that of originally, as we see from the last name, to the
consecrating a temple in honour of Lamia, under gens Aemilia, and was adopted into the gens
the title of Aphrodite, and their example was fol- Aelia. He was consul suffectus in A. D. 80 in the
lowed by the Thebans. (Plut. Demetr. 16, 19, reign of Titus, and was originally married to Do24, 25, 27; Athen. iii. p. 101, iv. p. 128, vi. p. mitia Longina, the daughter of Corbulo; but dur253, xiii. p. 577, xiv. p. 615; Aelian. iV. H. xii. ing the lifetime of Vespasian he was ~deprived of
17, xiii. 9.) According to Athenaeus, she had a her by Domitian, who first lived with her as his
daughter by Demetrius, who received the name of mistress and subsequently married her. [DOMITIA
Phila. Diogenes Laertius (v. 76) mentions that LONGINA.] Lamlia was put to death by Domitian
Demetrius Phalereus also cohabited with a woman after his accession to the throne. (L)ion Cass.
named Lamia, whom he calls an Athenian of noble lxvi. 3; Suet. Dom. 1, 10; Juv. iv. 1 54.) Lamia's
birth. If this, story be not altogether a mistake, full name was L. Aelius Plautius Lamia. (Marini,
which seems not improbable, the Lamia meant Atti degli fratr. arv. i. tav. xxiii. 25, p. cxxx. and
must be distinct from the subject of the present 222.)
article. [E. H. B.] LAMISCUS (AdAuLKos), of Samos, is quoted
LA'MIA, a family of the Aelia gens, which by Palaephatus (De Incred. init. p. 268, ed. Westclaimed a high antiquity, and pretended to be de- ermann) as a writer 7ropl dirfrwtv. There is a
scended from the mythical hero,. Lamus. [LAMUv.] Pythagorean of this name mentioned in a letter of
No member of this family is, however, mentioned Archytas to the tyrant Dionysius the younger.
till the end of the republic, but it was reckoned (Diog. Laert. iii. 22.)
under the empire one of the noblest families in LA'MIUS or LAMUS (Ad.utos), a son of HeRome. (Hor. Carm. iii. 17; Juv. iv. 154, vi. racles and Omphale, from whom the Thessalian
385.) town of Lamia was believed to have derived its
1. L. AELIUS LAMIA, was of equestrian rank, name. (Diod. iv. 31; Steph. Byz. s. vv. Aayia,
and distinguished himself by the zealous support Baipyaaa; Ov. Heroid. ix. 54.) [L. S.]
which he afforded to Cicero in the suppression of LAMPA'DIO, C. OCTA'VIUS, a Roman gramthe. Catilinarian conspiracy. So great were his marian, who divided into seven books the poem of
services that he was marked out for vengeance by Naevius on the first Punic war, which had not
the popular party, and was accordingly banished been divided by its author into books. (Suet. De
('elegatus) by the influence of the consuls Gabinius Illustr. Gramm. 2.)
and Piso in B. C. 58. He was subsequently re- LAMPA'DIUS, a Roman senator, who made
called from exile; and during the civil wars he himself conspicuous by the boldness of his patriotism:appears to have espoused Caesar's party, since we and political principles, at a time when the Roman
find that he obtained the aedileship in B.C. 45. senate was renowned for its servility. In A. D.
During this time he lived on intimate terms with 408, the Gothic king Alaric offered his services to
Cicero, and there are two letters of the latter to the emperor Honorius, on condition of receiving in