Lightning (Lovers killed by). (See under Lovers.)
Lightning Protectors. Jupiter chose the eagle as the most approved preservative against lightning, Augustus[Augustus] Cæsar the sea-calf, and Tiberius the laurel.—Collumella x.; Suetonius, In Vit. Aug., xc. Suetonius, In Vita Tib., lxix.
Lightwood (Mortimer), a solicitor, who conducts the “Harmon murder” case. He is the great friend of Eugene Wrayburn, barrister-at-law, and it is the great ambition of his heart to imitate the nonchalance of his friend. At one time Mortimer Lightwood admired Bella Wilfer.—C. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (1864).
Ligurian Sage (The), Aulus Persius Flaccus, the satirist (34-62).
Lilburn (John), a contentious leveller in the Commonwealth, of whom it was said, If no one else were alive John would quarrel with Lilburn. The epigrammatic epitaph of John Lilburn is as follows:—
Is John departed, and is Lilburn gone?
Farewell to both, to Lilburn and to John!
Yet being gone take this advice from me:
Let them not both in one grave buried be.
Here lay ye John; lay Lilburn thereabout;