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

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to the death of Verus rests upon no good evidence, Alexandria, appear to have been the source of
but in general profligacy she seems to have been most of the later collections of the kind. Thus
a worthy descendant of the Faustinae, and a worthy Zenobius expressly states that he collected his prosister to Commodus. verbs from Lucillus and Didymus. The proverbs
Historians do not expressly mention that she had of Lucillus are also quoted by Tzetzes (Cli1. viii.
children by her first husband; yet the legend, 149), by Apostolius, and by Stephanus (s. v. T a"Pa
FECUNDITAS, which appears upon some of her reading Aovu'lAAos for AovcLoS, comp. s. v. KdAapva;
medals, although the date of these may be uncer- Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 265, v. p. 107;
tain, would lead to the conclusion that their union Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 463, ed. Westermann;
was not unfruitful; and since the Claudius Pom- Leutsch and Schneidewin, Paroem. Graec. vol. i.
peianus who undertook to assassinate Commodus Praef. p. xii.). [P. S.]
is called her son-in-law, it is manifest that the LUCILLUS, a painter, who is highly extolled
daughter whom he married must have been born of by the architect Symmachus, whose house he decoVerus, for the death of Lucilla happened thirteen rated (Epist. ii. 2, ix. 47). He lived, therefore,
years only after her second marriage. By Pompei- under Theodoric, towards the end of the fifth
anus she had a son named Pompeianus, who rose century. [P. S.]
to great distinction under Caracalla. [POMPEI- LUCI'NA, the goddess of light, or rather the
ANUS.] (Dion Cass. lxxi. 1, lxxii. 4; Capitolin. goddess that brings to light, and hence the goddess.1V. Aurel. 7, Ver. 2; Lamprid. Commod. 4, 5.) that presides over the birth of children; it was
[W. R.] therefore used as a surname of Juno and Diana,
and the two are sometimes called Lucinae. (Varro,....erS<$ @ de Ling. Lat. v. 69; Catull. xxxiv. 13; Horat.
Carm. Saec. 14,&c.; Ov. Fast. ii. 441, &c., vi. 39;
__Brh E% Tibull. iii. 4. 13.) When women of rank gave
~ Tu 1 birthto a son, a lectisternium was prepared for Juno
a ft j~ A d i ADOS. Lucina in the atrium of the house. (Serv. and
Philarg. ad Virg. Eclog. iv. 63.) [L.S.]
LU'CIUS (AocaLos). 1. Of ADRIANOPLE or
COIPN OF ANNIA LUCILLA - HADRIANOPLE, was bishop of that city in the
fourth century, succeeding, though Tillemont doubts.LUCILLA, DOMI'TIA, otherwise DOMITrA if immediately, St. Eutropius. He was expelled
CALVILLA, the wife of Annius Verus, and mother from his see by the Arian party, then predominant
of M. Aurelius. (Capitolin. M. Alurel. i. 6; in the East, under the emperor Constantius II., the
Spartian. Did. Jul. 1.) [W. R.] son of Constantine the Great; and went to Rome to
LUCILLA, DOMI'TIA, was, according to lay his cause before the pope, Julius I., apparently
some numismatologists, the name of the daughter of in the year 340 or 341. Several other bishops
Nigrinus, the wife of Aelius Caesar. There seem, were at Rome on a similar errand, about the same
however, to be no good grounds for this assertion; time; and the pope, having satisfied himself or
and the coins adduced as belonging to her ought to their innocence and of their orthodoxy, sent them
be assigned to ANNIA LUCILLA. (Eckhel, vol. vi. back to their respective churches, with letters rep. 527.) [W. R.] quiring their restoration, and other letters rebuking
LUCI'LLIUS (.AovKAALos). A poet of the their persecutors. The Oriental bishops appear to
Greek Anthology, who edited two books of epi- have rejected the pope's authority, and sent him
grams. In the Anthology one hundred and twenty- back a -remonstrance against his rebukes. Lucius,
four epigrams are ascribed to him (Brunck, Anal. however, recovered his see by the authority of the
vol. ii. p. 317; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 29); emperor Constantius, who was constrained to restore
but of these, the Vatican MS. assigns the 118th him by the threats of'his brother Constans, then
to Lucian, and the 96th and 124th to Palladas. emperor of the West. This restoration is placed
This authority, therefore, removes the foundation by Tillemont before the council of Sardica, A. D.
for the inferences respecting the poet's date, which 347. When the death of Constans (A. D. 350)
Lessing and Fabricius drew from the mention of was known in the East, the Arian party, whom
the physician Magnus in the 124th epigram. But, Lucius had provoked by the boldness and severity
on the other hand, the Vatican MS. assigns to of his attacks, deposed him, bound him neck and
Lucillius the 16th epigram of Ammianus, the 36th hands with irons (as they had done at least once beand 41st of Philip, the 108th anonymous, and the fore), and in that condition banished him. He died
23rd of Leonidas of Alexandria. From the last in exile. The Romish church commemorates him
epigram (which is also far more in the style of as a martyr on the eleventh of February. (Athanas.
Lucillius than of Leonidas), it appears that the Apolog. de Fuga sua, c. 3, and Iist. Arianor. ad
poet lived under Nero, and that he received money Monach. c. 19; Socrat. H. E. ii. 15, 23, 26; Sozofrom that emperor. Nearly all his epigrams are men. H. E. iii. 8, 24, iv. 2; Theodoret, H. E. ii. 15;
sportive, and many of them are aimed at the Tillemont, Mgmoises, vols. vi. and vii.; Bolland,
grammarians, who at that time abounded at Rome. Acta Sanctorum Februarii, vol. ii. p. 519, Epistolae
lHis name is often written Aosv'chAXos in the MSS., Julii Papae et Oqient. Episc. apud Concilia, vol. ii.
but it appears from his 35th epigram that AovKti- col. 475, &c. ed. Labbe.)
ALos is right. (Jacobs, Anti. Graec. vol. xiii. pp. 2. Of ALEXANDRIA. When, on the death of the
912, 913.) [P. S.] emperor Constantius, and the murder of the Arian
LUCILLUS (Ao6NA0os) of Tarrha, in Crete, patriarch George of Cappadocia [GEORGIus, No. 71],
wrote a work on the city of Thessalonica (Steph. Athanasius recovered the patriarchate of AlexanByz. s. v. ~soraaovisKn)j, a commentary on the Ar- dria, the Arians were expelled from the churches,
yonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, and a collection and held their meetings in obscure places. While
of Proverbs, which, with those of Didymus of in this condition, they elected Lucius to be their