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 LEMOVICES. mentioned by Pliny ; and Dr. Hunt thinks that they are probably those of the citadel of Hephaestias. The chief production of the island, was a red earth called terra Lemnia or sigillata, which was employed by the ancient physicians as a remedy for wounds and the bites of serpents ; and which is still much valued by the Turks and Greeks for its sup- posed medicinal virtues. It is dug out of a hill, made into small balls, and stamped with a seal con- taining Arabic characters. The ordinary modern name of the island, is Stali- mene (ejs Tav Arifj.i'oy'), though it is also called by its ancient name. There were several small islands near Lemnos, of which the most celebrated was Chryse (Xpv<Tr), where Philoctetes was said to have been aban- doned by the Greeks. According to Pausanias, this island was afterwards swallowed up by the sea, and another appeared in its stead, to which the name of Hiera was given. (Eustath ad Ilom. II. ii. p. 330; Appian. il/Mr. 77; Paus. viii. 33. §4.) (Rhode, i2es Lemnicae, Vratisl. 1829; Hunt, in Walpole's Travels, p. .54, seq.) LEONTES. 157 COIN OF HEPHAESTIAS IN LEJINOS. LEMOVICES (A6/xo§iKes,Strab. p. 1 90 ;A6;UomVoi, Ptol. ii. 7. § 10), a Gallic people who were bounded by the Arverni on the east, the Bituriges Cubi and the Pictones on the north, and the Santones on the west. Their chief town was Augustoritum or Limoges. [Augustoritum.] The diocese of Li- moffen, comprehending the diocese of Tulle, which has been separated from it, represents the limits of the Lemovices ; but the diocese of Limoges extends somewhat beyond the limits of the old province of Limousin, which derives its name from the Lemo- vices, and into that province which was called La Marclie. An inscription in Gruter, foimd at Rancon, in the diocese of Limoges, proves that there was included in the territory of the Lemovices a people named Andecamulenses ; and another Gallic inscrip- tion shows that Mars was called Camulus. Camu- logenus was a Gallic name. (Caes. B. G. vii. 59, 62.) Caesar (S. G. vii. 4) enumerates the Lemo- vices among the peoples whom Vercingetorix stirred up against the Romans in b. c. 52 : they are placed in the text between the Aulerci and Andes. The Lemovices sent 10,000 men to assist their coun- trymen at the siege of Alesia (B. G. vii. 75) But in the same chapter (vii. 75) the Lemovices are again mentioned : " universis civitatibus quae Ocean um attingunt quaeque eorum consuetudine Ar- moricae appellantur, quo sunt in numero Curioso- lites, Eedones, Ambibari, Caletes, Osismi, Lemovices, Veneti, Unelli, sex millia." Here the Lemovices are placed in a different position, and are one of the Armoric States. [Armoricae Civitates.] Some critics erase the name Lemovices from Caesar's text ; but there is good authority for it. Davis remarks (Caes. Oudendorp, i. p. 427), that all the MSS. (known to him) have the reading Lemovices, and that it occurs also in the Greek translation. He also observes, that as there were three Aulerci [Aulerci], so there might be two Lemovices; and we may add that there were two Bituriges, Bi- turiges Cubi and Bituriges Vivisci; and Volcae Arecomici and Volcae Tectosages. If the text of Caesar then is right, there were Armoric Lemovices as well as the Lemovices of the Limousin ; and we must either keep the name as it is, or erase it. The emendation of some critics, adopted by D'Anville, rests on no foundation. Walckenaer finds in the district which he assigns to the Lemovices Armoricani, a place named La Limominiere, in the arrondissement of Nantes, between Machecoul, Nantes and Saint- Ltger; and he considers this an additional proof in favour of a conjecture about the text of Ptolemy in the matter of the Lemovices; as to which con- jecture his own remarks may be read. (Geog. &c. des Gaules, vol. i. p. 369.) [G. L.] LEMO'VII, a German tribe, mentioned by Tacitus (Germ. 43) as linng with the Rugii on the coast of the Ocean, that is, the Baltic Sea. Tacitus men- tions three peculiarities of this and the other tribes in those districts (the modern Pommerania'), — their round shields, short swords, and obedience to- wards their chiefs. (Comp. Zeuss, die Deidschen, p. 155.) [L. S.] LE'NTIA (Linz), a small place in Noricum on the Danube, on the road from Laureacum. Ac- cording to the Notitia Imperii, from which alone we learn anything about this place, it appears that a prefect of the Legio Italica, and a body of horse archers, were stationed there. (Comp. Gruter, Inscript. p. 541. 10 ; Muchar, Noricum, i. p. 284.) [L. S.] LENTIENSES, the southernmost branch of the Alemanni, which occupied both the northern and southern borders of the Lacus Brigantinus. They made repeated inroads into the province of Rhaetia, but were defeated by the emperor Constantius. (Amm. Marc. sv. 4, sxxi. 10; Zeuss, die Deutschen, p. 309, foil.) [L. S.] LE'NTULAE or LE'NTOLAE, a place in Upper Pannonia, on the principal highroad leading through that country, and 32 Roman miles to the south-east of Jovia. {it. Ant. p. 130; It. Eieros. p. 562; Geogr. Rav. iv. 19.) Ptolemy (ii. 15. § 5) men- tions a town AevTovSov in the same neighbourhood, which is perhaps only a slip for AevrovKov. Some identify the place with the modem Bertzentze, and others with Letticliany. [L. S.] LEO FLUVIUS. [Leontes.] LEON (Ae'uii/ ^Kpa.) 1. A point on the S. coast of Crete, now Punta di Lionda. (Ptol. iii. 17. § 4 ; Hock, K7-eta, vol. i. pp. 394, 413.) [E. B. J.] 2. A promontory of Euboea, S. of Eretria, on the Kari oikttj. (Ptol. iii. 15. § 24.) 3. A place on the E. coast of Sicily, near Syra- cuse, where both the Athenians and Romans landed when they were going to attack that city. (Thuc. vi. 97; Liv. xxiv. 39.) [Svracusae.] LEONICA. [Edetani.] LEONTES (AeofTor iroTdfiov eVSoAai), a river of Phoenicia, placed by Ptolemy between Beiytus and Sidon (v. 15, p. 137) ; consistently with which notice Strabo places Leontopolis between the same two towns, the distance between which he states at 400 stadia. He mentions no river of this name, but the Tamyras (6 Ta/u.vpas irorafxds), the grove of Aesculapius, and Leontopolis, which would doubtless correspond with the Lion river of Ptolemy ; for it is obviously an error of Pliny to place " Leontos oppi- dum " between "Berytus" and " Flumen Lycos" (v. 20). Now, as the Tamyras of Strabo is clearly