La-vin´i-um, Italian city named for Lavinia, [287].

Law. See [Themis].

Le-an´der, a youth of Abydos, who, swimming the Hellespont to see Hero, his love, was drowned, [105]-[106].

Le-ba-de´a, site of the oracle of Trophonius, [298].

Le-byn´thos, Ægean island, [157].

Le´da, Queen of Sparta, wooed by Jupiter in the form of a swan, [109], [158].

Leir, mythical King of Britain, original of Shakespeare’s Lear, [383]-[384].

Le´laps, dog of Cephalus, [26], [35].

Lem´nos, large island in the Ægean Sea, sacred to Vulcan, [6], [130], [205], [229].

Lem´u-res, the spectres or spirits of the dead, [11].