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

~726 LAVERNA. LEAGRUS.
called mimes (Dict. of Ant. s.'v.) in the. reign of nity, which is said to be a contraction of Lativerna,
Domitiani, with whom he was a great favourite, is, according to some, connected with the verb
and whom he served as a delator. It seems pro- latere, or with the Greek AaCEzv and the Sanscrit
bable that the Latinus spoken of by Juvenal (i. labh, but it is more probably derived from levare
35, vi. 44), was the sameperson, though the scho- and levator (a thief). See Petron, 140; Obbarius,
liast on Juvenal (I. cc.) says that this Latinus was ad Horat. Ep. i. 16. 60. [L. S.]
put to death by Nero on account of his being privy LAVI'NIA, a daughter of Latinus and Amata,
to the adulteries of Messallina. The Latinus of and the wife of Aeneas, by whom she became the
the time of Domitian is frequently mentioned by mother of Ascanius or Silvius. (Liv. i. I; Virg.
Martial, who gives his epitaph (ix. 29),and speaks Aen. vii. 52, &c., vi. 761; Dionys. i. 70.) Some
of his private character in favourable terms. La- traditions describe her as the daughter of the priest
tinus frequently acted as mimus in conjunction with Anius, in Delos. (Dionys. i. 50; Aur. Vict.
Thymele as mima. (Juv. 1. c.; Suet. Dom. 15; Orig. Gent. Rom. 9.) [L. S.].Mart. i. 5, ii. 72, iii. 86, v. 61, ix,. 29.) P. LAVI'NIUS, a Latin grammarian, who wrote
LATI'NUS, literary. 1. A Greek grammarian a work, De Verbis Sordidis, which is referred to by
of uncertain age, who wrote a work in six books, A. Gellius (xx. 1. 1), but of whom we know nothing.entitled rlep 7amv odc 8ib'wv MepdvspoIl. (Fabric. more. It has been conjectured that he may be the
Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 456.) same as the Laevinus mentioned by Macrobius.
2. LATINUS ALCIMUS AVITus ALETHIUS, the (Saturn. iii. 8.)
filll name of the Alcimus spoken of in Vol. I. p. LAURE'NTIA. [ACCA LAURENTIA.]
102, b. LAURE'NTIUS JOANNES. [JOANNES,
3. LATINUS PACATUS DREPANIUS. [DREPA- No. 79.]
NIUS.] LAUSUS. 1. A son of Mezentius, who was
LATO'NA. [LETO.] slain while defending his father against Aeneas.
LATRO, M. PO'RCIUS, a celebrated Roman (Virg. Aen. vii. 649, x. 790.) According to the
rhetorician in the reign of Augustus, was a Spaniard author of the De Orig. Gent. Rom. (15), Lausus
by birth, and a friend and contemporary of the fell at a later time, during the siege of Lavinium,
elder Seneca, with whom he studied under Maril- by the hand of Ascanius.
lius, and by whom he is frequently mentioned. 2. A son of Numitor and brother of Ilia, was
He flourished about the year B.C. 17, in which fraudulently killed by Amulius. (Ov. Fast. iv.
year he declaimed before Augustus and M. Agrippa. 55.) [L. S.]
(Senec. Controv. ii. 12. p. 177, ed. Bipont. Comp. LEADES (Aecials), a son of Astacus, who,
Clinton, F. H. ad ann.) His school was one of according to Apollodorus (iii. 6. ~ 8), fought in the
the most frequented at Rome, and he numbered defence of Thebes against the Seven, and slew
among his pupils the poet Ovid. He possessed an Eteocles; but Aeschylus (Sept. 474) represents
astonishing memory, and displayed the greatest Megareus as the person who killed Eteocles. [L.S.]
energy and vehemence, not only in declamation, LEAENA (MAaLva). 1. An Athenian hetaera,
but also in his studies and other pursuits. In his beloved by Aristogeiton, or, according to Athenaeus,
school he was accustomed to declaim himself, and by Harmodius. On the murder of Hipparchus
seldom set his pupils to declaim, whence they re- she was put to the torture, as she was supposed to
ceived the name of auditores, which word came have been privy to the conspiracy; but she died
gradually into use as synonymous with discipsli. under her sufferings without making any disclosure,
But great as was the reputation of Latro, he did and, if we may believe one account, she bit off her
not escape severe criticism on the part of his con- tongue, that no secret might be wrung from her.
temporaries: his language was censured by Mes- The Athenians honoured her memory greatly, and
salla, and the arrangement of his orations by other in particular bt a bronze statue of a lioness (Aealu'a).rhetoricians. Though eminent as a rhetorician, he without a tongue, in the vestibule of the Acropolis.
did not excel as a practical orator; and it is related (Paus. i. 23; Athen. xiii. p. 596, e; Plut. de
of him that, when he had on one occasion in Spain Garr. 8; Polyaen. viii. 45.) Pausanias tells us
to plead in the forum the cause of a relation, he (I. c.) that the account of her constancy was prefelt so embarrassed by the novelty of speaking in served at Athens by tradition.
the open air, that he could not proceed till he had 2. An hetaera, one of the favourites of Demetrius
induced the judges to remove from the forum into Poliorcetes, at Athens. (Mach. ap. Athen. xiii. p.
the basilica. Latro died in B. C. 4, as we learn 577, d; comp. Plut. Dem. 26.) [E. E.]
from the Chronicle of Eusebius. Many modern LEAGRUS (AMa-ypos), son of Glaucon, in conwriters suppose that Latro was the author of the junction with Sophanes the athlete, of Deceleia,
Declamations of Sallust against Cicero; and of.Ci- commanded the Athenians who fell in the first
cero against Sallust. (Senec. Controv. i. Praef. attempt to colonise Amphipolis, B. C. 465, at Drap. 63, &c., ii. 10, p. 157, ii. 13. p. 175, iv. 25, p. bescus or Datus (Herod. ix. 75; Paus. i. 29. ~ 4;
291, iv. Praef. p. 273, ed. Bipont.; comp. Quintil. x. comp. Thuc. i. 100). His son, a second Glaucon,
5. ~ 18; Plin. H. N. xx. 14. s. 57; Hieronym. commanded, with the orator Andocides, the reinin Etuseb. Citron. Olymp. 194, 1; Westermann, forcements sent to the aid of the Corcyraeans, B. c.
Gesch. d. Rimischen Beredtsamkeit, ~ 86; Meyer, 432; and his grandson, another Leagrus, is ridiOratorum Roman. Fragmenta, p. 539, &c., 2d ed.) culed in a passage of the comic poet Plato (ap.
LAVERNA, the protecting divinity of thieves Athen. ii. p. 68, c.), as a highborn fool.
and impostors; a grove was sacred to her on the
via Salaria, and she had an altar near the porta oaX Jpa^s "ra
Lavernalis, which derived its name from her. (Ar- d uezv AiaCypos rAaVKwwvos /eydAovu ye'vovs
nob. adv. Gent. iii. 26; Nonius, viii. 6; Acron, CKOtCKVc ahAiOos r4Spze'pXETaC.
ad Horat. Ep. i. 16, 60; Varro, De L. L. v. 163;
Eest. s. v. Lanerniones.) The name of this divi- A sister of his was married to Callias III., son of