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the title of praetor to enhance his dignity. (Hor. sonages mentioned by Ovid (Met. iii. 625, v. 60,
Sat. i. 5. 34-36.) xii. 302). [L. S.]
LUSCUS, M. FU'RIUS, plebeian aedile with LYCAEUS (AvKcalos), sometimes also Lyceus, a
C. Sempronius Blaesus, B. c. 187, exhibited a surname of certain divinities worshipped on mount
second time the plebeii ludi. (Liv. xxxix. 7.) Lycaeum in Arcadia, as for instance Zeus, who had
C. LU'SIUS, a nephew of C. Marius, and tri- a sanctuary on it, in which the festival of the Lycaea
bune of the soldiers in the Cimbric war, B. C. 111 was celebrated. No one was allowed to enter. the
-106, was slain byhis tent-comrade,Trebonius,for temple, and if any one forced his way in, he was
attempting a criminal assault upon him. Marius believed to stay, within one year, and to lose his
acquitted and commended Trebonius. (Plut. Mar. shadow (Paus. viii. 2. ~ 1, 38. ~ 4, &c.; Pind. 01.
14; Cic. pro Mil. 4; Schol. Bob.pro Mil. p. 279, xiii. 154). According to others those who entered
Orelli; Val. Max. vi. 1. ~ 12.) [W. B. D.] it were stoned to death by the Arcadians, or were
LU'SIUS GETA. [GETA.]. called stags, and obliged to take to flight to save
LU'SIUS QUIETUS. [QUIETUS.] their lives (Plut. Quaest. Graec. 39). Pan also
LUTA'RIUS. [LEONNORIUS.] was called the Lycaean, because he was born and
LUTA'TIA GENS, plebeian. The name is had a sanctuary on mount Lycaeon (Paus. viii. 38.
sometimes written in MSS. Luctatius as well as ~ 4; Strab. viii. p. 388; Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i.
Lutatius: in the poets the u in the latter form is 16; Virg. Aen. viii. 344). Lycaeus also occurs as
short (Sil. Ital. vi. 687; Claudian, in Eutrop. i. a surname of Apollo. See LyCIus. [L. S.]
455.) This gens first became distinguished in Roman LYCAMBES. [ARcHILOCHUS.]
history by C. Lutatius Catulus, who was consul L YCAON (Awvd'wv). 1. A son of Pelasgus by
B. c. 242, the last year of the first Punic war. Its Meliboea, the daughter of Oceanus, and king of
cognomens are CATULUS, CERCO, and PINTHIA; Arcadia (Apollod. iii. 8. ~ 1). Others call him a
but Cerco is the only cognomen which we find son of Pelasgus by Cyllene (Schol. ad Eurip. Orest.
upon coins. The Lutatii had a burial-place (se- 1642), and Dionysius of Halicarnassus (i. 11, 13)
pulcherum Lutatiorum) beyond the Tiber, which is distinguishes between'an elder and a' younger
mentioned in B. C. 82.'(Oros. v. 21.) Lycaon, the former of whom is called a son of
LUTA'TIUS, the author of an historical work, Aezeus and father of Deianeira, by whom Pelasgus
entitled Commnunis Historia, or Co2mmzunes Historiae, became the father of the younger Lycaon. The
of which a fourth book is quoted. (Probus, ad traditions about him place Lycaon in very different
Vi~rg. Georg. iii. 280; Serv. ad Aen. ix. 710.) lights, for according to some, he was a barbarian
Some writers consider him to be the same as the who even defied the gods (Ov. Met. i. 198, &c.),
~C. Lutatius Catulus who perished in the proscription while others describe him as the first civiliser of
of Marius [CATULUS, No. 3]; but he was pro- Arcadia, who built the town of Lycosura, and inbably a different person, as Cicero makes no men- troduced the worship of Zeus Lycaeus. It is added
tion of the Comrnunis Historia in his enumeration that he sacrificed a child on the altar of Zeus, and
of the works of Catulus. (Cic. Brut. 35.) The that during the sacrifice he was changed by Zeus
fragments of this work are collected by Krause into a wolf (Paus. viii. 2. ~ 1; comp. Ov. Met. i.
( Vitae et Fragm. list. Lat. p. 318, &c.). 237). By several wives Lycaon became the father
LUTA'TIUS DAPHNIS, a celebrated gram- of a large number of sons, some say fifty, andothers.marian, who was purchased by Q. Lutatius Catulus only twenty-two; but neither their number nor'[CATULUS, No. 3] at an immense sum, and soon their names are the same in all accounts (Apollod.,
afterwards manumitted. (Suet. de Ill. Gram.. 3.) Dionys. ll. cc. Paus. viii. 3. ~ 1; Euistath. ad
Q. LUTA'TIUS DIODO'RUS, received the Hom. p. 313). The sons of Lycaon are said to
Roman franchise from Sulla, through the influence have been notorious for their insolence and impiety,
of Q. Lutatius Catulus, He afterwards, lived at and Zeus visited them in the disguise of a-poor
Lilybaeum, where he was robbed by Verres. (Cic. man, with a view to punish them. They invited
Verr. iv. 17.) him to a repast, and on the suggestion of one of
C. LUTO'RIUS PRISCUS. [PRIscvs.] them, Maenalus, they mixed in one of the dishes
LUXO'RIUS flourished in Africa under the set before him the entrails of a boy whom they
Vandal king Hilderic during the early part of the had murdered. According to Ovid Zeus was resixth century. His name is attached to a series of cognised and worshipped by the Arcadian people,
eighty-nine short poems or epigrams in various but Lycaon, after a vain attempt to kill the god,.metres, many of them coarse, all of them dull. The resolved to try him with the dish of human flesh
language and versification, however, show that the (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 481; Eratosth. Catast. 8). Howauthor must have been a man of education, well ever, Zeus pushed away the table which bore the
acquainted with the models of classical antiquity, horrible food, and the place where this happened was
and one' or two of the pieces are curious, inasmuch afterwards called'Trapezus. Lycaon and all his
as they prove that the irregularities of the clergy sons, with the exception of the youngest (or eldest),
had already begun to afford a theme for satire. Nyctimus, were killed by Zeus with a flash of
Luxorius is one of the many poets to whom the lightning, or according to others, were changed
charming Pervigilium Veneris has been ascribed, into wolves (Ov., Tzetz. 11. cc.; Paus. viii. 3. ~ 1)..but assuredly none of his acknowledged productions Some say that the flood of Deucalion occurred in
are of such a stamp as to induce us to believe him the reign of Nyctimus, as a punishment of the
capable of having created any thing so bright and crimes of the Lycaonids. (Apollod. i. c.)
graceful. (Burmann, Antiholog. Lat. ii. p. 579, iii. 2. A son of Priam and Laothoe, was taken and
27, 41, or n. 296-384, ed. Meyer.). [W. R.] slain by Achilles. (Hom. I1. iii. 333, xxi. 35, &,,
LYAEUS (Avados), the god who frees men from xxii. 46, &c.)
care and anxiety, a surname of Bacchus. (Eustath. 3. A Lycian, the father of Pandarus. (Hom.,ad Hom. p. 108; Virg. Georg. ii. 229.) [L. S.] I1. ii. 826, v. 197.) fL. S.]
LYCABAS, the name of,three fictitious per-, LYCASTUS.(AcKaarTos), a.son of-Minos and