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

728 LEM5URES, LENTTULUS.
LEIO'DES' (AeAbc1s), one of the'suitors of 419, &c.; comp. Hartung, Die Relig. de RItnm. i,
Penelope, was slain by Odysseus. (Hom. Od. xxi. p. 55, &c.) [L. S.]
144, xxii. 328.) [L. S.] LENAEUS (A1vpaZos), a surname of Dionysus,
LEIS. [ALTHEPUS.] derived from A77vds, the wine-press or the vintage.
LEITUS(Arros), ason of AlectororAlectryon, (Hesych. s. v.; Virg. Georg. ii. 4. 529; Diet. of
by Cleobule, and father of Peneleus. (Apollod. Ant. s. v. Lenaea.) [L. S.]
iii. 10. ~ 8; Diod. iv. 67.) He is mentioned among LENAEUS, a freedman of Pompey the Great,
the Argonauts (Apollod. i. 9. ~ 16), and corm- whence he is sometimes called Pompeius Lenaeus.
marnded the Boeotians in the war against Troy He was a native of Athens, possessed great know(Holn. II. ii. 494, xvii. 602; Paus. ix. 4. ~ 3), ledge of natural history, and was acquainted with
from whence he took with him the remains of several languages, in consequence of which Pomnpey
Arcesilaus. (Paus. ix. 39. ~ 3.) His tomb was restored him to freedom. (Sueton. De Illustr.
shown in later times at Plataeae. (Paus. ix. 4. ~ Grarmmat. 2, 15; Plin. H. N. xxv. 2, 3.) He ac3; comp. Hygin. Fab. 97.) [L. S.] companied his patron in nearly all his expeditions
LELEX (As'AsE). 1. One of the original in- (Suet. 1. c. 15), and by his command he translated
habitants of Laconia which was called after him, into Latin. the work of Mithridates on poisons.
its first king, Lelegia. He was married to the (Plin. 1. c., comp. xv. 30, 39, xxiv. 9, 41, xxv. 6,
Naiad Cleochareia, by whom he became the father 27, and Elench. lib. xiv. xv. xx. xxiii. xxvii.)
of Myles, Polycaon, and Eurotas. He had a heroum After the death of Pompey and his sons, Lenaeus
at Sparta. (Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 3; Paus. iii. 1. ~ 1. maintained himself by keeping a school at Rome,
12. ~ 4, iv. 1. ~ 2.) Some call his wife Peridia, in the Carinae, near the temple of Tellus, the disand his children Myles, Polyclon, Bomolochus, and trict in which the house of Pompey had been. This
Therapne; while Eurotas is represented as a son of fact is a proof not only of his great attachment to
MILyles and a grandson of Lelex. (Schol. adEurip. the memory of his late master, but also of his not
)rest. 615.) In other traditions, again, Lelex is having made use of his friendship with Pompey for
described as a sof of Spartus, and as the father of the purpose of enriching himself. His affection for
Amyclas. (Steph. BSyz. s. v. AaKceagiwov.) Pompey also led him to write a very bitter satire
2. A son of Poseidon and Libya, the daughter against the historian Sallust, who had spoken of
of Epaphus. He was.regarded as the ancestor of Pompey in an unjust and slanderous manner.
the Leleges, and is said to have immigrated from Suetonius (I. c. 15) has preserved some of the opEgypt into Greece, where he became king of Me- probrious terms in which Lenaeus spoke of Sallust.
gara; and his tomb was shown below Nisaea, the (O. M. Muiiller, Ilistor. Krit. Darstellung der
acropolis of Megara. (Paus. i. 44. ~ 5, 39. ~ 5; Naclsricht. com Leben, ic., des Sallust, p. 10; DruOv. M1et. vii. 443, viii. 567, 617.) mann, Gesche. Roms, vol. iv. p. 556.) [L. S.]
3. One of the Calydonian hunters. (Ov. Met. LE'NIUS. [LAENIUS.]
viii. 312.) [L. S.] LENTI'CULA, LICI'NIUS, called in some
LE'MURES, i. e., spectres or spirits of the manuscripts of Cicero Denticula, was one of Alndead, which were believed by the Romans toreturn tony's dissolute companions, who had been conto the upper world and injure the living. Some demned for gambling, but was restored by Antony
writers describe Lemures as the common name for to his former status. Dion Cassius falsely states
all the spirits of the dead (Apul. de Deo Socr. that he was recalled from banishment by Antony;
p. 237, ed. Bip.; Serv..ad Aen. iii. 63; Mart. but it would seem that infamia was a consequence
Capella, ii. ~ 162; Ov. Fast. v. 483), and divide of being condemned for gambling, and that he was
all Lemures into two classes; viz. the souls of restored by Antony to his full rights as a citizen.
those who have been good men are said to become (Cic. Phil. ii. 23; Abram. and Garaton. ad loc.;
Lares, while those of the wicked become Larvae. Dion Cass. xlv. 47.)
But the common idea was that the Lemures and LENTI'DIUS, one of the leaders of the Clodian
Larvae were the same (August. De Civ. Dei, ix. mob of slaves and gladiators in January, B. c. 57,
11 ); and the Lemures are said to wander about at when P. Sextius, tribune of the plebs, was assailed
night as spectres, and to torment and frighten the and left for dead in the temple of Castor in the
living. (Horat. Epist. ii. 2. 209; Pers. v. 185.) forum. (Cic.proDom. 33, pro Sent. 37.) [W.B.D.]
In: order to propitiate them, and to purify the LENTO, CAESE'NNIUS, a follower of M.
human habitations, certain ceremonies were per- Antony; and unless Cicero is speaking ironically,
formed on the three nights of the 9th, 11th, and originally a stage player. (Phil. xi. 6.) Lento
13th of May every year. The pater familias rose was one of Antony's seven agrarian commissioners
at midnight, and went outside the door making -septemviratus (Cic. Phil. ii. 38, xii. 9, xiii. 12)certain signs with his hand to keep the spectre at in B. c. 44, for apportioning the Campanian and
a distance. He then washed his hand thrice in Leontine lands, whence Cicero terms him " divisor
spring water, turned round, and'took black beans Italiae." During the siege of Mutina in the spring
into his mouth, which he afterwards threw behind of B. c. 43, Lento was stationed in Etruria to
him. The spectres were believed to collect these watch the communications with Rome by the Via
beans. After having spoken certain words without Cassia, which circumstance furnished one among
looking around, he again washed his hands, made Cicero's various reasons for declining the legation
a noise with brass, basins, and called out to the to Antony in Cisalpine Gaul. (Phil. xii. 9, xiii.
spectres nine times: " be gone, you spectres of the 2.) [W. B. D.]
house! " This being done, he was allowed to look LENTULUS, the name of one of the haughtiest
round, for the spectres were rendered harmless. patrician families of the Cornelian Gens [CoRNELIA
The days on which these rites were performed GENS]; so that Cicero coins the words Appielas
were considered unlucky, and the temples and Lentulitas to express the qualities of the high
Temained closed during that period. (Varro, ap. patrician party (ad Fam. iii. 7. ~ 5). When we
Nlosn. p. 135; Fest. s. v.. Fabamn; Ov. Fast. v. find plebeians bearing the name (as a tribune of