about 10 miles from the sea, is the town of Laino, | supposed by Cluverius to represent the ancient Laus; but the latter would appear, from Strabo's description, to have been nearer the sea. Romanelli would place it at Scalea, a small town with a good port, about three miles N. of the mouth of the river; but it is more probable that the ancient city is to be looked for between this and the river Lao. (Cluver. Ital. p. 1262; Romanelli, vol. i. p. 383.) According to Strabo there was, near the river and city, a temple or Heroum of a hero named Dracon, close to which was the actual scene of the great battle between the Greeks and Lucanians. (Strab. I. c.) Strabo speaks of a gulf of Laüs, by which he can hardly mean any other than the extensive bay now called the Gulf of Policastro, which may be considered as extending from the promontory of Pynus (Capo degli Infreschi) to near Cirella. There exist coins of Laüs, of ancient style, with the inscription AAINON: they were struck after the destruction of Sybaris, which was probably the most flourishing time in the history of Laüs. [E. H. B.] LAUS POMPEIA, sometimes also called simply LAUS (Eth. Laudensis: Lodi Vecchio), a city of Gallia Transpadana, situated 16 miles to the SE. of Milan, on the highroad from that city to Placentia. (Itin. Ant. pp. 98, 127.) According to Pliny it was an ancient Gaulish city founded by the Boians soon after they crossed the Alps. (Plin. ii. 17. s. 21.) It afterwards became a Roman municipal town, and probably assumed the epithet of Pompeia in compliment to Pompeius Strabo, who conferred the rights of Latin citizens upon the municipalities of Transpadane Gaul; but we find no special mention of the fact. Nor does any historical notice of Laus occur under the Roman Empire: though it seems to have been at that period a considerable town, and is termed in the Itineraries "Laude civitas," and by P. Diaconus "Laudensis civitas." (Itin. Ant. p. 98; Itin. Hier. p. 617; P. Diac. v. 2.) In the middle ages Lodi became an important city, and an independent republic; but was taken and destroyed in A. D. 1112 by the Milanese, and in 1158 the emperor Frederic Barbarossa having undertaken to restore it, transferred the new city to the site of the modern Lodi, on the right bank of the Adda. The ancient site is still occupied by a large village called Lodi Vecchio, about 5 miles due W. of the modern city. It is correctly placed by the Itineraries 16 M. P. from Mediolanum, and 24 from Placentia. (Itin. Ant. p. 98.) [E. H. B.] LAUSO'NIUS LACUS, in the country of the Helvetii. The Antonine Itin. has a road from Mediolanum (Milan) through Geneva to Argentoratum (Strassburg). Sixteen Roman miles from Geneva, on the road to Strassburg, the Itin. has Equestris, which is Colonia Equestris or Noviodunum (Nyon); and the next place is Lacus Lausonius, 20 Roman miles from Equestris. To the next station, Urba (Orbe), is 18 Roman miles. In the Table the name is “ Lacum Losonne," and the distances from Geneva to Colonia Equestris and Lacum Losonne are respectively 18 M. P., or 36 together. The Lacus Lausonius is supposed to be Lausanne, on the Lake of Geneva; or rather a place or district, as D'Anville calls it, named Vidi. The distance from Geneva to Nyon, along the lake, is about 15 English miles; and from Nyon to Lausanne, about 22 or 23 miles. The distance from Geneva to Nyon is nearly exact; but the 20 miles from Equestris to the Lacus Lausonius is not enough. If Vidi, which is west of Lausanne, is assumed to be the place, the measures will agree better. D'Anville cites M. Bochat as authority for an inscription, with the name Lousonnenses, having been dug up at Vidi, in 1739; and he adds that there are remains there. (Comp. Ukert's note, Gallien, p. 491.) [G. L.] LAUTULAE or AD LAUTULAS (ai AautoAa, Diod.), is the name given by Livy to the pass between Tarracina and Fundi, where the road winds round the foot of the mountains, between them and the sea, so as to form a narrow pass, easily defensible against a hostile force. This spot figures on two occasions in Roman history. In B. C. 342 it was here that the mutiny of the Roman army under C. Marcius Rutilus first broke out; one of the discontented cohorts having seized and occupied the pass at Lautulae, and thus formed a nucleus around which the rest of the malcontents quickly assembled, until they thought themselves strong enough to march upon Rome. (Liv. vii. 39.) At a later period, in B. C. 315, it was at Lautulae that a great battle was fought between the Romans, under the dictator Q. Fabius, and the Samnites. Livy represents this as a drawn battle, with no decisive results; but he himself admits that some annalists related it as a defeat on the part of the Romans, in which the master of the horse, Q. Aulius, was slain (ix. 23). Diodorus has evidently followed the annalists thus referred to (xix. 72), and the incidental remark of Livy himself shortly after, that it caused great agitation throughout Campania, and led to the revolt of the neighbouring Ausonian cities, would seem to prove that the reverse must really have been much more serious than he has chosen to represent it. (Liv. ix. 25; Niebuhr, vol. iii. pp. 228-231.) The locality is always designated by Livy as "ad Lautulas:" it is probable that this was the name of the pass, but whether there was a village or other place called Lautulae, we are unable to tell. The name was probably derived from the existence of warm springs upon the spot. (Niebuhr, 1. c., note 399.) It is evidently the same pass which was occupied by Minucius in the Second Punic War, in order to guard the approach to Latium from Campania (Liv. xxii. 15), though its name is not there mentioned. The spot is now called Passo di Portella, and is guarded by a tower with a gate, forming the barrier between the Roman and Neapolitan territories. (Eustace, vol. ii. p. 309.) [E. H. B.] LAXTA. [CELTIBERIA.] LAZI (AάCo, Arrian, Peripl. p. 11; Plin. vi. 4; Aaça, Ptol. v. 10. § 5), one among the many tribes which composed the indigenous population which clustered round the great range of the Caucasus. This people, whose original seats were, according to Procopius (B. G. iv. 2), on the N. side of the river Phasis, gave their name, in later times, to the country which was known to the Greeks and Romans as Colchis, but which henceforth was called "Regio Lazica." They are frequently mentioned in the from whence the inhabitants, under the conduct of Lebadus, an Athenian, migrated into the plain, and founded there the city named after him. On the other hand, Strabo maintains (ix. p. 413) that the Homeric cities Arne and Mideia were both swallowed up by the lake Copais. Lebadeia was originally an insignificant place, but it rose into importance in consequence of its possessing the celebrated oracle of Trophonius. The oracle was consulted both by Croesus (Herod. i. 46) and by Mardonius (Herod. viii. 134), and it continued to be consulted even in the time of Plutarch, when all the other oracles in Byzantine writers; the first time that they appear in history was A. D. 456, during the reign of the emperor Marcian, who was successful against their king Gobazes. (Prisc. Exc. de Leg. Rom. p. 71; comp. Le Beau, Bas Empire, vol. vi. p. 385.) The Lazic war, the con'est of Justinian and Chosroes on the banks of the Phasis, has been minutely described by contemporary historians. (Procop. B. P. ii. 15, 17, 28, 29, 30, B. G. iv. 7-16, Agath. ii. iii. iv. pp. 55-132, 141; Menand. Protect. Exc. de Leg. Gent. pp. 99, 101, 133-147; comp. Gibbon, c. xlii.; Le Beau, vol. ix. pp. 44, 133, 209–220,312–353.) In the Atlas (pt. i. pl. xiv.) to Dubois de Mont-Boeotia had become dumb. (Plut. de Def. Orac. 5.) pereux (Voyage Autour du Caucase, comp. vol. ii. pp. 73-132) will be found a map of the theatre of this war. In A. D. 520, or 512 according to the era of Theophanes, the Lazi were converted to Christianity (Gibbon, l. c.; Neander, Gesch. der Christl. Religion, vol. iii. p. 236), and, under the name of Lazians, are now spread through the country near the SE. angle of the Euxine from Guriel to the neighbourhood of Trebizond. Their language, belonging to the Indo-Germanic family, appears to contain remains of the ancient Colchian idiom. (Cosmos, vol. ii. note 201, trans.; Prichard, Physical Hist. of Mankind, vol. iv. p. 263.) [E. B. J.] LEA, an island in the Aegaean sea, mentioned only by Pliny (iv. 12. s. 23) in conjunction with Ascania and Anaphe. LEANDIS (Aeavòls), a town in the eastern part of the strategy of Cataonia, in Armenia Minor, 18 miles to the south of Cocusus, in a pass of Mount Taurus, on the road to Anazarbus. (Ptol. v. 7. § 7.) This town is perhaps the same as the Laranda of the Antonine Itinerary (p. 211) and of Hierocles (p. 675), which must not be confounded with the Laranda of Lycaonia or Isauria. [L. S.] LEANITAE. [LEANITES SINUS.] LEANITES SINUS (Aeavíτns Kóλños), a bay on the western side of the Persian Gulf, so named from the Arab tribe LEANITAE (Acavitat, Ptol. vi. 7. § 18). They are placed north of Gerrah, between the Themi and the Abucaei. Pliny states that the name was variously written: "Sinus intimus, in quo Laeanitae qui nomen ei dedere; regio eorum Agra, et in sinu Laeana, vel, at alii Aaelana; nam et ipsum sinum nostri Aelaniticum scripsere, alii Aeleniticum, Artemidorus Alaniticum, Juba Laeniticum" (vi. 28). Agra, which Pliny represents as the capital, is doubtless the "Adari civitas” ('Adάpov πóxis) of Ptolemy, in the country of the Leanitae. Mr. Forster regards the name as an abbreviated form of "Sinus Khaulanites" or Bay of Khaulan, in which he discovers an idiomatic modification of the name Haulanites, the Arabic form for Havileans, -identical with| the Beni Khaled, the inhabitants of the Avâl or Havilah of Scripture [HAVILAH]. (Geography of Arabia, vol. i. pp. 48, 52, 53, vol. ii. p. 215.) The gulf apparently extended from the Itamus Portus (Kedema) on the north, to the Chersonesi extrema (Ras-el-Chár) on the south. [G. W.] LEBADE. [SIPYLUS.] LEBADEIA (Acsádeia, Herod., Strab., et alii; Aebadía, Plut. Lys. 28: Eth. Aebadeús: Livadhia), a town near the western frontier of Boeotia, described by Strabo (ix p. 414) as lying between Mt. Helicon and Chaeroneia. It was situated at the foot of a precipitous height, which is an abrupt northerly termination of Mt. Helicon. Pausanias relates (ix. 39. § 1) that this height was originally occupied by the Homeric city of Mideia (Midea, Пl. ii. 507), Pausanias himself consulted the oracle, and he speaks of the town in terms which show that it was in his time the most flourishing place in Boeotia. But notwithstanding the sanctity of the oracle, Lebadeia did not always escape the ravages of war. It was taken and plundered both by Lysander and by Archelaus, the general of Mithridates. (Plut. Lys. 28, Sull. 16.) In the war against Perseus, it espoused the side of the Romans, while Thebes, Haliartus, and Coroneia declared in favour of the Macedonian king. (Polyb. xxvii. 1.) It continues to exist under the slightly altered name of Livadhia, and during the Turkish supremacy it gave its name to the whole province. It is still a considerable town, though it suffered greatly in the war of independence against the Turks. The modern town is situated on two opposite hills, rising on each bank of a small stream, called Hercyna by Pausanias, but the greater part of the houses are on the western slope, on the summit of which is a ruined castle. Pausanias says that the Hercyna rose in a cavern, from two fountains, close to one another, one called the fountain of Oblivion and the other the fountain of Memory, of which the persons who were going to consult the oracle were obliged to drink. The Hercyna is in reality a continuation of an occasional torrent from Mount Helicon; but at the southern extremity of the town, on the eastern side of the castle-hill, there are some copious sources, which were evidently the reputed fountains of the Hercyna. They issue from either side of the Hercyna, those on the right bank being the most copious, flowing from under the rocks in many large streams, and forming the main body of the river; and those on the left bank being insignificant, and flowing, in the time of Dodwell, through ten small spouts, of which there are still remains. The fountains on the right bank are warm, and are called Chiliá ( Xixia), and sometimes rà yλupà vepá, or the water unfit for drinking; while the fountains on the left bank are cold and clear, and are named Krya (ʼn крúα, i. e. ǹ кpúa Вpúσis, the cold source, in opposition to the warm, Chilia). Neither of these two sets of fountains rise out of a cave, and so far do not correspond to the description of Pausanias; but there is a cavern close to each; and in the course of ages, since the destruction of the sacred buildings of Trophonius, the caverns may easily have been choked up, and the springs have emerged in different spots. The question, however, arises, which of the caverns contained the reputed sources of the Hercyna? The answer to this must depend upon the position we assign to the sacred grove of Trophonius, in which the source of the Hercyna was situated. Leake places the sacred grove on the right or eastern bank; but Ulrichs on the left, or western bank. The latter appears more probable, on account of the passage in Pausanias, depɣei dè ἀπ' αὐτῆς (i. e. τῆς πόλεως) τὸ ἄλσος τοῦ Τροφω viov, where there is little doubt that Torauós, or some equivalent term, must be applied as the nominative of dieĺpyet. The ancient city would, in that case, have stood on the right or eastern bank of the river, which also appears probable from the numerous fragments of antiquity still scattered over the eminence on this side of the river; and the grove of Trophonius would have been on the western side of the stream, on which the greater part of the modern town stands. The most remarkable object in the grove of Trophonius was the temple of the hero, containing his statue by Praxiteles, resembling a statue of Asclepius; a temple of Demeter, surnamed Europe; a statue of Zeus Hyetius (Pluvius) in the open air; and higher up, upon the mountain, the oracle (Tò μavтeîov). Still higher up was the hunting place of Persephone; a large unfinished temple of Zeus Basileus, a temple of Apollo, and another temple, containing statues of Cronus, Zeus, and Hera. Pausanias likewise mentions a chapel of the Good Daemon and of Good Fortune, where those who were going to consult the oracle first passed a certain number of days. In the Turkish mosque, now converted into a church of the Panagia, on the western side of the river, three inscriptions have been found, one of which contains a dedication to Trophonius, and the other a catalogue of dedications in the temple of Trophonius. (See Böckh, Inscr. 1571, 1588.) Hence it has been inferred that the temple of Trophonius occupied this site. Near the fountain of Krya, there is a square chamber, with seats cut out of the rock, which may perhaps be the chapel of the Good Daemon and Good Fortune. Near this chamber is a cavern, which is usually regarded as the entrance to the oracle. It is 25 feet in depth, and terminates in a hollow filled with water. But this could not have been the oracle, since the latter, according to the testimony both of Pausanias and Philostratus, was not situated in the valley upon the Hercyna, but higher up upon the mountain. (Paus. ix. 39. § 4; Philostr. Vit. Apoll. viii. 19.) Mure justly expresses his surprise that Leake, after quoting the description of Pausanias, who says that the oracle was ἐπὶ τοῦ ὄρους, should suppose that it was situated at the foot of the hill. A person who consulted the oracle descended a well constructed of masonry, 12 feet in depth, at the bottom of which was a small opening on the side of the wall. Upon reaching the bottom he lay upon his back and introduced his legs into the hole, when upon a sudden the rest of his body was rapidly carried forward into the sanctuary. The site of the oracle has not yet been discovered, and is not likely to be, without an extensive excavation. An account of the rites observed in consulting the oracle is given in the Dict. of Antiq. p. 841, 2nd ed. (Dodwell, Tour through Greece, vol. i. p. 216, seq.; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 118, seq.; Mure, Tour in Greece, vol. p. 233, seq.; Ulrichs, Reisen in Griechen land, p. 164, seq.) LEBAEA (Aesain,) an ancient city in Upper Macedonia, and the residence of the early Macedonian kings, mentioned only by Herodotus (viii. 137). LEBECII. [LIBICI.] is LEBEDO'NTIA, a town upon the coast of Hispania Tarraconensis, situated upon the mountain Sellus, at no great distance from Tarraco. It mentioned only by Avienus (Or. Marit. 509), in whose time, however, it had ceased to exist. LE'BEDOS (Λέβεδος: Eth. Λεβέδιος), an ancient city on the western coast of Asia Minor, 90 stadia to the east of Cape Myonnesus, and 120 to the north-west of Colophon. (Strab. xiv. p. 643.) The place was originally inhabited by Carians, until, on the immigration of the Ionians into Asia, it was taken possession of by them under the guidance of Andraemon, a son of Codrus. (Paus. vii. 3. § 2.) Strabo (xiv. p. 633), however, in speaking of the foundation of the Ionian cities, states that it was colonised by Andropompus and his followers, having previously borne the name of Artis: the tomb of Andraemon, moreover, was shown in the neighbourhood of Colophon, on the road crossing the river Hales. (Paus. . c.) For a long time Lebedos continued to be a city flourishing by its cominerce, the fertility of its territory, and the excellent hot mineral springs in its neighbourhood, which still exist. (Hecat. Fragm. 219; Herod. i. 142; Thucyd. viii. 19.) It was afterwards nearly destroyed by Lysimachus, who transplanted its population to Ephesus (Paus. l. c. i. 9. § 8); after which time Lebedos appears to have fallen more and more into decay so that in the days of Horace it was more deserted than Gabii or Fidenae. (Epist. i. 11. 7.) It is mentioned, however, as late as the 7th century of the Christian era (Aelian, V. H. viii. 5; Ptol. v. 2. § 7; Mela, i. 17; Plin. H. N. v. 31; Hierocles, p. 660); and the Romans, in order to raise the place in some measure, established there the company of actors (τεχνῖται περὶ τὸν Δίονυσον) who had formerly dwelt in Teos, whence during a civil commotion they withdrew to Ephesus. Attalus afterwards transplanted them to Myonnesus; and the Romans, at the request of the Teians, transferred them to Lebedos, where they were very welcome, as the place was very thinly inhabited. At Lebedos the actors of all Ionia as far as the Hellespont had ever after an annual meeting, at which games were celebrated in honour of Dionysus. (Strab. xiv. p. 643.) The site of Lebedos is marked by some ruins, now called Ecclesia or Xingi, and consisting of masses of naked stone and bricks, with cement. There also exists the basement and an entire floor of a small temple; and nearer the sea there are traces of ancient walls, and a few fragments of Doric columns. (Chandler's Asia Minor, p. 125.) [L. S.] LEBEN (Aéбny, Strab. x. p. 478) or LEBENA (Aé6ŋva, Ptol. iii. 17. § 4; Stadiasm.; Plin. iv. 12; Ae6vn, Paus. ii. 26. § 7; Ledena, Peut. Tab.), a maritime town of Crete, which was a harbour of Gortyna, about 70 stadia inland. (Strab. I. c.) It possessed a temple of Asclepius, of great celebrity (Philostrat. Vit. Apollon. ix. 11), and is represented by the modern hamlet of Léda. (Höck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 8, 394, 399.) [E. B. J.] LEBINTHUS (Aébweos), a small island in the Aegaean sea, one of the Sporades, NE. of Amorgus, between which and Lebinthus lies the still smaller island Cinarus. (Strab. x. p. 487; Steph. B. s. v. Aрenávη; Plin. iv. 12. s. 23; Mela, ii. 7. § 11; Ov. Met. viii. 222, Ar. Am. ii. 81; Ross, Reisen auf den Griech. Inseln, vol. ii. p. 56.) LEBONAH, a town of Palestine, north of Shiloh, identified by Maundrell with Leban, a village 4 hours S. of Naplus. (Judg. xxi. 19; Winer, Biblisch. Realwörterbuch, s. v.) LEBUNI. [LUSITANIA.] LECHAEUM. [CORINTHUS, p. 682.] LECTOCE, AD, in Gallia Narbonensis, is placed by the Jerusalem Itin. after Arausio (Orange), and belonging to the Scythian stock. (Theophanes, ap. LEGEOLIUM, a town in Britain, mentioned in the Itinerary. At Castleford, in Yorkshire, the road from Isurium (Aldborough) crosses the river Aire; and in this neighbourhood coins and other antiquities have been dug up. A camp, however, has yet to be discovered. Castleford is generally identified with Legeolium. Lagecium is the first station from York on the way to London, 21 miles from the former town, and 16 from Danum (= Doncaster). This is from the 8th Itinerary. LE'CYTHUS (Ahкʊlos), a town in the peninsula of Sithonia in Chalcidice, not far from Torone, with a temple to Athena. The town was attacked by Brasidas, who took it by storm, and consecrated the entire cape to the goddess. Everything was demolished except the temple and the buildings con-sition. nected with it. (Thuc. iv. 115, 116.) [E. B. J.] LEDERA'TA or LAEDERATA (Aedepára and ATEρard), a fortified place in Upper Moesia, on the high road from Viminacium to Dacia, on the river Morgus. It was a station for a detachment of horse archers. (Procop. de Aed. iv. 6; Tab. Peut.; Notit. Imp., where it is called Laedenata.) Ruins of ancient fortifications, commonly identified with the site of Lederata, are found in the neighbourhood of [L. S.] Rama. │(Onomast. s. v. Tabałwv), In the 5th Legeolium is exactly in the same poThis identifies the two. [R. G. L.] LE'GIO (Aeyewv), a town of Palestine mentioned by Eusebius and S. Jerome. Its importance is intimated by the fact that it is assumed by them as a centre from which to measure the distance of other places. Thus they place it 15 M. P. west of Nazareth, three or four from Taanach (Onomast. s. vv. Nazareth, Thaanach, Thanaach Camona, Aphraim.) Reland (Palaest. s. v. p. 873) correctly identifies it with the modern village Legune or el-Lejjún, "on the western border of the great plain LEDON (Aedúr: Eth. AedóvTIOs), a town of of Esdraelon," which Eusebius and S. Jerome Phocis, north of Tithorea, the birthplace of Philo-designate, from this town, μéya mediov Aeyeŵvos melus, the commander of the Phocians in the Sacred "where it already beWar. In the time of Pausanias it was abandoned by gins to rise gently towards the low range of wooded the inhabitants, who settled upon the Cephissus, at hills which connect Carmel and the mountains of the distance of 40 stadia from the town, but the Samaria." Its identity with the Megiddo of Scripruins of the latter were seen by Pausanias. Leake ture is successfully argued by Dr. Robinson (Bib. supposes that the ruins at Paleá Fiva are those of Res. vol. iii. pp. 177-180.) Megiddo is constantly Ledon. (Paus. x. 2. § 2, x. 3. § 2, x. 33. § 1; joined with Taanach, and Lejjún is the requisite Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 89.) distance from the village of Ta'annûk, which is directly south of it. Both were occupied by Canaanitish sheikhs (Josh. xii. 21), both assigned to the half-tribe of Manasseh, though lying within the borders of Issachar or Asher (xvii. 11; 1 Chron. vii. 29); both remained long unsubdued (Judges, i. 27). In the battle between Barak and Sisera "they fought in Taanach by the Waters of Megiddo,”—which waters issue from a copious fountain, the stream from which turns several mills, and is an important tributary to the Kishon (Maundrell, Journey, March 22, p. 57.) This is probably the place mentioned by Shaw as the Ras-el-Kishon, or the head of the Kishon, under the south-east brow of Mount Carmel. Three or four of its sources, he says, lie within less than a furlong of each other, and discharge water enough to form a river half as big as the Isis. (Travels, p. 274, 4to. ed.) It was visited and described by Mr. Wolcott in 1842. He found it to be an hour and 40 minutes from Ta'annúk (Bibliotheca Sacra, 1843, pp. 76-78.) The great caravan road between Egypt and Damascus passes through Lejjún; and traces of an old Roman road are to be seen to the south of the village. [G. W.] LEDRON (Andpov), a place in Cyprus, near Leucosia, which the ecclesiastical writers mention as a bishop's see. (Sozomen, H. E. v. 10; Niceph. Callist. viii. 42; Engel, Kypros, vol. i. p. 152.) [E. B. J.] LEDUS, or LEDUM, as Mela (ii. 5) names it, a small river of Gallia Narbonensis. Festus Avienus (Ov. Marit. 590) names it Ledus. Mela speaks of the "Stagna Volcarum, Ledum flumen, castellum Latera." The Ledus is the Lez, which passes by Sextantio, to the east of Montpellier, and flows into the E'tang de Maguelone or Perols below Latera, now Lates or Latte. Pliny (ix. 8) gives the name of Stagnum Latera to this E'tang, and he speaks of it as abounding in mullets, and describes the way of taking them. The mullet is still abundant there. Pliny places the Stagnum Latera in the territory of Nemausus (Nimes), which is at some distance. But the E'tang and the Castellum Latera may be among the many small places (Plin. iii. 4) which were made dependant on Nemausus (Nemausiensibus attributa). [G. L.] LEETA'NI. [LAEËTANI.] LEGAE (Anyai, Strab. xi. p. 503; Anyes, Plut. Pomp. 35), a people on the shores of the Caspian, LEGIO VII. GE'MINA (Itin. Ant. p. 395; LEHI, or more fully RAMATHLEHI, a place in the south of Palestine, the name of which is derived from one of Samson's exploits. (Judg. xv. 9, 14, 17; comp. Joseph. Ant. v. 8. § 8; Winer, Biblisch. Realwörterbuch, s. v.) LEIMONE (Acquavn), the later name of the Homeric ELONE ('Hλwn), according to Strabo, was a town of Perrhaebia in Thessaly, and was situated at the foot of Mount Olympus, not far from the Titaresius or Eurotas. The Greeks of Elassina report that there are some remains of this city at Selos. (Hom. I. ii. 739; Strab. ix. p. 440; Steph. B. s. v. 'Hλúvn; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 345.) LEINUM (Ahivov), a town of Sarmatia Europaea, which Ptolemy (iii. 5. § 29) places on an affluent of the Borysthenes, but whether on the Beresina, or some other, is uncertain. LIANUM (Aeíavov, Ptol. iii. 5. § 12), on the Palus Maeotis, appears to be the same place repeated by an oversight. (Schafarik, Slav. Alt. vol. i. p. 512.) [E. B. J.] LEIPSYDRIUM. [ÁTTICA, p. 326, b.] LELAMNO'NIUS SINUS, in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy (ii. 3) as lying between the aestuary of the Clota (Clyde) and the Epidian Promontory (Mull of Cantyre); = Loch Fyne. [R. G. L.] Roman city of Asturia, in Hispania Tarraconensis, | the capital of the kingdom of Leon, by the removal admirably situated at the confluence of two tribu- of the court to Seville. The greater portion of the taries of the Esla, at the foot of the Asturian moun- Roman walls may still be traced. (Ford, Handbook tains, commanding and protecting the plain of Leon. of Spain, p. 318.) [P.S.] As its name implies, it grew out of the station of the new 7th legion, which was raised by the emperor Galba in Hispania. (Dion Cass. iv. 24; Tac. Hist. ii. 11, iii. 25; Suet. Galba, 10.) Tacitus calls the legion GALBIANA, to distinguish it from the old LEGIO VII. CLAUDIA, but this appellation is not found on any genuine inscriptions. It appears to have received the appellation of GEMINA (respecting the use of which, and GEMELLA, see Caesar B. C. iii. 3) on account of its amalgamation by Vespasian with one of the German legions, not improbably the LEGIO I. GERMANICA. Its full name was VII. GEMINA FELIX. After serving in Pannonia, and in the civil wars, it was settled by Vespasian in Hispania Tarraconensis, to supply the place of the VI. Victrix and X. Gemina, two of the three legions ordinarily stationed in the province, but which had been withdrawn to Germany. (Tac. Hist. ii. 11, 67, 86, iii. 7, 10, 21-25, iv. 39; Inscr. ap. Gruter, p. 245, no. 2.) That its regular winter quarters, under later emperors, were at Leon, we learn from the Itinerary, Ptolemy, and the Notitia Imperii, as well as from a few inscriptions (Muratori, p. 2037, no. 8, A. D. 130; p. 335, nos. 2, 3, A. D. 163; p. 336, no. 3, A. D. 167; Gruter, p. 260, no. 1, A. D. 216); but there are numerous inscriptions to prove that a strong detachment of it was stationed at Tarraco, the chief city of the province. (The following are a selection, in order of time :-Orelli, no. 3496, A. D. 182; no. 4815; Gruter, p. 365, no. 7.) In the inscriptions the legion has the surnames of P. F. ANTONINIANA, P. F. ALEXANDRIANA, and P. F. SEVERIANA ALEXANDRIANA; and its name occurs in a Greek inscription as AET. Z. AIAúμn (C. I. vol. iii. no. 4022), while another mentions a xixíapxov èv ‘Ionavią λeyeŵvos ébdóμns. | (C. I. vol. i. no. 1126.) There is an inscription in which is found a "Tribunus Militum LEG. VII. GE-❘ MINAE FELICIS IN GERMANIA," from a comparison of which with two inscriptions found in Germany (Lehne, Schriften, vol. i. nos. 11, 62; Borghesi, sulle iscr. Rom. del Reno, p. 26), it has been inferred that the legion was employed on an expedition into Germany under Alexander Severus, and that this circumstance gave rise to the erroneous designation of repμavikh in the text of Ptolemy. (Böcking, N. D. pt. ii. pp. 1026, seq.; Marquardt's Becker, Röm. Alterthum. vol. iii. pt. 2, p. 354; Grotefend, in Pauly's Realencyklopädie, s. v. Legio.) The station of this legion in Asturia grew into an important city, which resisted the attacks of the Goths till A. D. 586, when it was taken by Leovigildo; and it was one of the few cities which the Goths allowed to retain their fortifications. During the struggle with the Arab invaders, the same fortress, which the Romans had built to protect the plain from the incursions of the mountaineers, became the advanced post which covered the mountain, as the last refuge of Spanish independence. After yielding to the first assault of the Moors, it was soon recovered, and was restored by Ordoño I. in 850. It was again taken by Al-Mansur in 996, after a year's siege; but was recovered after AlMansur's defeat at Calatañazor, about A. D. 1000; repeopled by Alonso V., and enlarged by Alonso XI., under whose successor, Don Pedro, it ceased to be LELANTUS CAMPUS (τὸ Λήλαντον πεδίον), a fertile plain in Euboea, between Chalcis and Eretria, which was an object of frequent contention between those cities. [CHALCIS.] It was the subject of volcanic action. Strabo relates that on one occasion a torrent of hot mud issued from it; and it contained some warm springs, which were used by the dictator Sulla. The plain was also celebrated for its vineyards; and in it there were mines of copper and iron. (Strab. i. p. 58, x. p. 447, seq.; Hom. Hymn. in Apoll. 219; Theogn. 888; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 265.) Pliny mentions a river Lelantus in Euboea, which must have flowed through this plain, if it really existed. (Plin. iv. 12. s. 21.) LE'LEGES (Aéλeyes), an ancient race which was spread over Greece, the adjoining islands, and the Asiatic coast, before the Hellenes. They were so widely diffused that we must either suppose that their name was descriptive, and applied to several different tribes, or that it was the name of a single tribe and was afterwards extended to others. Strabo (vii. p. 322) regarded them as a mixed race, and was disposed to believe that their name had reference to this (Tò σUAλÉKTOVS YeYovÉvai). They may probably be looked upon, like the Pelasgians and the other early inhabitants of Greece, as members of the great Indo-European race, who became gradually incorporated with the Hellenes, and thus ceased to exist as an independent people. The most distinct statement of ancient writers on the origin of the Leleges is that of Herodotus, who says that the name of Leleges was the ancient name of the Carians (Herod. i. 171). A later Greek writer considered the Leleges as standing in the same relation to the Carians as the Helots to the Lacedaemonians and the Penestae to the Thessalians. (Athen. vi. p. 271.) In Homer both Leleges and Carians appear as equals, and as auxiliaries of the Trojans. (II. x. 428.) The Leleges are ruled by Altes, the father-in-law of Priam, and inhabit a |