[♦] ‘give’ replaced with ‘given’
Latreus, one of the Centaurs, who, after killing Halesus, was himself slain by Cæneus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 12, li. 463.
Laudămia, a daughter of Alexander king of Epirus, and Olympias daughter of Pyrrhus, killed in a temple of Diana, by the enraged populace. Justin, bk. 28, ch. 3.——The wife of Protesilaus. See: [Laodamia].
Laudice. See: [Laodice].
Laverna, the goddess of thieves and dishonest persons at Rome. She did not only preside over robbers, called from her Laverniones, but she protected such as deceived others, or performed their secret machinations in obscurity and silence. Her worship was very popular, and the Romans raised her an altar near one of the gates of the city, which from that circumstance was called the gate of Laverna. She was generally represented by a head without a body. Horace, bk. 1, ltr. 16, li. 60.—Varro, de Lingua Latina, bk. 4.——A place mentioned by Plutarch, &c.
Lavernium, a temple of Laverna, near Formiæ. Cicero, bk. 7, Letters to Atticus, ltr. 8.
Laufella, a wanton woman, &c. Juvenal, satire 6, li. 319.
Laviana, a province of Armenia Minor.
Lăvīnia, a daughter of king Latinus and Amata. She was betrothed to her relation king Turnus, but because the oracle ordered her father to marry her to a foreign prince, she was given to Æneas after the death of Turnus. See: [Latinus]. At her husband’s death she was left pregnant, and being fearful of the tyranny of Ascanius her son-in-law, she fled into the woods, where she brought forth a son called Æneas Sylvius. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, bk. 1.—Virgil, Æneid, bks. 6 & 7.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 14, li. 507.—Livy, bk. 1, ch. 1.
Lavīnium, or Lavīnum, a town of Italy, built by Æneas, and called by that name in honour of Lavinia, the founder’s wife. It was the capital of Latium during the reign of Æneas. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 1, li. 262.—Strabo, bk. 5.—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, bk. 1.—Livy, bk. 1, ch. 2.—Justin, bk. 43, ch. 2.