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722 LARGUS. LMAONIUS.
genius Augusti was added to the Lares praestites, p. 203). He was a pupil of Tryphon (c. xliv. B
just as among the Lares of a family the genius of 175, p. 222) and Apuleius Celsus (c. xxii. ~ 94,
the paterfamilias also was worshipped. p. 208, c. xlv. ~ 171, p. 221). He appears to have
But besides the Lares praestites and compitales, written several medical works in Latin (Praef. p.
there are some other Lares which must be reckoned 188), of which only one remains, entitled " Comnamong the public ones, viz., the Lares rurales, who positiones Medicae," or "De Compositione Mediwere worshipped in the country, and whose origin camentorum." It is dedicated to C. Julius Calwas probably traced to certain heroes who had at listus, at whose request it was written, at a time
one time benefitted the republic. (Cic. De Leg. when Largus was away from home (perhaps in
ii. 11; Tibull. i. 1. 24.) The Lares arvales pro- Britain), and deprived of the greater part of his
bably belonged to the same class. (Klausen, De library (Praef.). It consists of nearly three hunCarm. Frat. Arval. p. 62.) We have also mention dred medical formulae, reveral of which are quoted
of Lares viales, who were worshipped on the high- by Galen (De Compos. Medicarm.-ec. Loc. vol. xii.
roads by travellers (Plaut. Mere. v. 2, 22; Serv. pp. 683, 738, 764, vol. xiii. pp. 67, 280, 284, &c.),
ad Aen. iii. 302); and of the Lares marini or and is interesting, as tending to illustrate the Mapermarini, to whom P. Aemilius dedicated a sanc- teria Medica of the ancients, but in no other point
tuary in remembrance of his naval victory over of view. It has been supposed that the work was
Antiochus. (Liv. xl. 52.) originally written in Greek, and translated into
The worship of the Lares was likewise partly Latin by some later author, and that it is this
public and partly private. The domestic Lares, version only that we now possess; but there does
like the Penates, formed the religious elements not seem to be any sufficient reason for this conof-the Roman household (Cic. De Repnb. iv. in jecture. It was first published at Paris, 1529, fol.
fin., ad Fam. i. 9, in Verr. iii. 24; Cat. De Re appended by J. Ruellius to his edition of Celsus.
Rust. 143); and their worship, together with that Another edition was published in the same year at
of the Penates and Manes, constituted what are Basel, 8vo. The best edition is that of J. Rhodius,
called the sacra privata. The images of the Lares, Patav. 1655, 4to., containing an improved text,
in great houses, were usually in a separate com- copious and learned notes, and a " Lexicon Scribopartment, called aediculae or lararia. (Juven. viii. nianum." The last edition is that by J. Mich.
110; Tibull. i. 10. 22; Petron. 29; Ael. Lamprid. Bernhold, Argent. 1786, 8vo., containing the text
Alex. Sev. 28; comp. Diet. of Ant. s. v. Lararium.) of Rhodius, but omitting his n6tes and " Lexicon
The Lares were generally represented in the cinctus Scribon." The work of Scribonius Largus is also
Gabinus (Pers. v. 31; Ov. Fast. ii. 634), and their contained in the collections of medical authors pubworship was very simple, especially in the early lished by Aldus, Venet. 1547, fol. and H. Stephens,
times and in the country. The offerings were set Paris, 1567, fol. C. G. Kiihn published in 1825,
before them in patellae, whence they themselves are 4to. Lips., a specimen of Otto Sperling's " Observacalled patellarii (Plaut. Cistell. ii. 2. 55), and pious tiones in Scribonium," from a MS. at Copenhagen.
people made offerings to them every day (Plant. See Haller's Biblioth. Medic. Pract., and Biblioth.
A iulu. Prolog.); but they were more especially Botan.; Sprengel,Hist. de la Mid.; Fabric. Biblioth.
worshipped on the calends, nones, and ides of every Lat.; Choulant, l-andb. der Biecherkunde fiir die
month. (Cat. De Re Rust. 143; Horat. Carmz. Aeltere Medicin. [W. A. G.]
iii. 23. 2; Tibull. i. 3. 33; Virg. Ecloq. i. 43.) LARGUS, VALE'RIUS, had been a friend of
When the inhabitants of the house took their Cornelius Gallus, but accused him before the emmeals, some portion was offered to the Lares, and peror Augustus. Largus was in consequence treated
on joyful family occasions they were adorned with with marked contempt at Rome. (Dion Cass. liii.
wreaths, and the lararia were thrown open. (Plaut. 23, 24.)
Aulul. ii. 8. 15; Ov. Fast. ii. 633; Pers. iii. 24, LA'RICHUS (AdfpXos), one of Sappho's bro&c., v. 31; Propert. i. 1. 132; Petron. 38.) thers, was cup-bearer in the prytaneium of the
When the young bride entered the house of her Mytilenaeans, and was praised in his sister's
husband, her first duty was to offer a sacrifice to poems. (Athen. x. p. 425, a.; Eustath. ad 1i. xx.
the' Lares. (Macrob. Sat. i. 15.) Respecting the p. 1280; Schol. Victorin. ad II. xx. 234.) [P. S.]
public worship of the Lares, and the festival of LARI SCOLUS, ACCOLEIUS. [ACCOLEIA
the Larentalia, see Diet. of Ant. s.v. Larentalia, GENS.]
Compitalia. (Comp. Hempel, De Diis Laribus, LARISSA (Adpi~oa), a daughter of Pelasgus,
Zwickau, 1797; Muller, De Diis Romanorum from whom the arx of Argos and two Thessalian
Laribus et Penatibus, Hafniae, 1811; Schbmann, towns are believed to have derived their name.
De Diis Manibus, Laribus et Geniis, Greifswald, (Paus. ii. 24. ~ 1; Strab. xiv. p. 621, who calls
1840; Hertzberg, De Diis Romanorunm Patriis, her a daughter of Piasus, a Pelasgian prince.) [L.S.]
sive de Larum atque Penatium tam publicorumn quam LARISSAEUS and LARISSAEA (Aapi-cza7os
privatorum Religione et Cultu, Halae, 1840.) [L.S.] and Aapraaana), surnames of Zeus and Apollo, deLA'RGIUS LICI'NIUS. [LARTIUS LICI- rived from the arx Larissa at Argos (Pans. ii. 24.
NIUS.] ~ 4; Strab. ix. p. 440, xiv. 649; Steph. Byz. s. v.
LARGUS, CAECINA. [CARCINA, Nos. 6 Adplnra), and of Athena, who derived it from
and 7.] the river Larissus, between Elis and Achaia,
LARGUS, SCRIBO'NIUS, a Roman phy- where the goddess had a sanctuary. (Paus. vii. 17.
sician, whose praenomen is unknown, and who ~3.) [L.S.]
sometimes bears the agnomen Designatianus. He LARO'NIUS, an officer of Augustus in the
lived at Rome in the first century after Christ, Sicilian war with Sext. Pompey, B. c. 36. He
and is said to have been physician to the emperor was despatched with three legions by M. Agrippa
Claudius, and to have accompanied him in his ex- to relieve L. Cornificius from his perilous situation
pedition to Britain. IHe himself mentions Messa- at Tauromenium, in Sicily [L. CORNIFICIUS, No.
lina, the wife " Dei nostri Caesaris" (c. xi. ~ 60, 5]. (Appian, B.C. v. 12, 15.) [W. B. D.]