Ovid, Art of Love, iii.
Lato´na, mother of Apollo (the sun) and Diana (the moon). Some Lycian hinds jeered at her as she knelt by a fountain in Delos to drink, and were changed into frogs.
As when those hinds that were transformed to frogs,
Railed at Latona’s twin-born progeny,
Which after held the sun and moon in fee.
Milton, Sonnets.
Latorch, Duke Rollo’s “earwig,” in the tragedy called The Bloody Brother, by Beaumont and Fletcher (1639).
Latro (Marcus Porcius), a Roman rhetorician in the reign of Augustus; a Spaniard by birth.
I became as mad as the disciples of Porcius Latro, who, when they had made themselves as pale as their master by drinking decoctions of cumin, imagined themselves as learned.—Lesage, Gil Blas, vii. 9 (1735).
Laud (Archbishop). One day, when the archbishop was about to say grace before dinner, Archie Armstrong, the royal jester, begged permission of Charles I. to perform the office instead. The request being granted, the wise fool said, “All praise to the Lord, and little Laud to the devil!” the point of which is much increased by the fact that the archbishop was a very small man.