Lordi, a people of Illyricum.
Lory̆ma, a town of Doris. Livy, bk. 37, ch. 17.
Lotis, or Lotos, a beautiful nymph, daughter of Neptune. Priapus offered her violence, and to save herself from his importunities she implored the gods, who changed her into a tree called Lotus, consecrated to Venus and Apollo. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 9, li. 348.
Lotŏphăgi, a people on the coast of Africa near the Syrtes. They received this name from their living upon the lotus. Ulysses visited their country, at his return from the Trojan war. Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 177.—Strabo, bk. 17.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 7.—Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 7; bk. 13, ch. 17.
Lōus, or Aous, a river of Macedonia near Apollonia.
Lua, a goddess at Rome, who presided over things which were purified by lustrations, whence the name (à luendo). She is supposed to be the same as Ops or Rhea.
Luca, now Lucca, a city of Etruria on the river Arnus. Livy, bk. 21, ch. 5; bk. 41, ch. 13.—Cicero, bk. 13, Letters to his Friends, ltr. 13.
Lucăgus, one of the friends of Turnus, killed by Æneas. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 575.
Lūcāni, a people of Italy, descended from the Samnites, or from the Brutii.
Lūcānia, a country of Italy between the Tyrrhene and Sicilian seas, and bounded by Pucetia, the Picentini, and the country of the Brutii. The country was famous for its grapes. Strabo, bk. 6.—Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 5.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 4.—Livy, bk. 8, ch. 17; bk. 9, ch. 2; bk. 10, ch. 11.—Horace, bk. 2, ltr. 2, li. 178.