Linternum, a town of Campania at the mouth of the river Clanis, where Scipio Africanus died and was buried. Livy, bk. 34, ch. 45.—Silius Italicus, bk. 6, li. 654; bk. 7, li. 278.—Cicero, bk. 10, Letters to Atticus, ltr. 13.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 15, li. 713.
Linus. This name is common to different persons whose history is confused, and who are often taken one for the other. One was son of Urania and Amphimarus the son of Neptune. Another was son of Apollo by Psammathe, daughter of Crotopus king of Argos. Martial mentions him in his ltr. 78, bk. 9. The third, son of Ismenius, and born at Thebes in Bœotia, taught music to Hercules, who in a fit of anger struck him on the head with his lyre and killed him. He was son of Mercury and Urania, according to Diogenes, who mentions some of his philosophical compositions, in which he asserted that the world had been created in an instant. He was killed by Apollo for presuming to compare himself to him. Apollodorus, however, and Pausanius mention that his ridicule of Hercules on his awkwardness in holding the lyre was fatal to him. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 4.—Diogenes Laërtius, bk. 1.—Virgil, Eclogues, poem 4.—Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 15; bk. 9, ch. 20.——A fountain in Arcadia, whose waters were said to prevent abortion. Pliny, bk. 31, ch. 2.
Liodes, one of Penelope’s suitors, killed by Ulysses. Homer, Odyssey, 22, &c.
Lipăra, the largest of the Æolian islands, on the coast of Sicily, now called the Lipari. It had a city of the same name, which, according to Diodorus, it received from Liparus the son of Auson, king of these islands, whose daughter Cyane was married by his successor Æolus, according to Pliny. The inhabitants of this island were powerful by sea, and from the great tributes which they paid to Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse, they may be called very opulent. The island was celebrated for the variety of its fruits, and its raisins are still in general repute. It had some convenient harbours, and a fountain whose waters were much frequented on account of their medicinal powers. According to Diodorus, Æolus reigned at Lipara before Liparus. Livy, bk. 5, ch. 28.—Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 9.—Silius Italicus, bk. 14, li. 57.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 1, li. 56; bk. 8, li. 417.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Strabo, bk. 6.——A town of Etruria.
Lipăris, a river of Cilicia, whose waters were like oil. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 27.—Vitruvius, bk. 8, ch. 3.
Liphlum, a town of the Æqui, taken by the Romans.
Lipodorus, one of the Greeks settled in Asia by Alexander, &c.
Liquentia, now Livenza, a river of Cisalpine Gaul, falling into the Adriatic sea. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 18.
Lircæus, a fountain near Nemæa. Statius, Thebiad, bk. 4, li. 711.
Liriŏpe, one of the Oceanides, mother of Narcissus by the Cephisus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 3, li. 311.——A fountain of Bœotia on the borders of Thespis, where Narcissus was drowned, according to some accounts.