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LAIUS, King of Thebes
LAMA, holy man of Thibet
LAMPETIA, daughter of Hyperion LAOC'OON, a priest of Neptune, in Troy, who warned the Trojans against the Wooden Horse (which See), but when two serpents came out of the sea and strangled him and his two sons, the people listened to the Greek spy Sinon, and brought the fatal Horse into the town
LAODAMIA, daughter of Acastus and wife of Protesilaus
LAODEGAN, King of Carmalide, helped by Arthur and Merlin
LAOMEDON, King of Troy
LAPITHAE, Thessalonians, whose king had invited the Centaurs to his daughter's wedding but who attacked them for offering violence to the bride
LARES, household deities
LARKSPUR, flower from the blood of Ajax
LATINUS, ruler of Latium, where Aeneas landed in Italy
LATMOS, Mount, where Diana fell in love with Endymion
LATONA, mother of Apollo
LAUNCELOT, the most famous knight of the Round Table
LAUSUS, son of Mezentius, killed by Aeneas
LAVINIA, daughter of Latinus and wife of Aeneas
LAVINIUM, Italian city named for Lavinia
LAW, See THEMIS
LEANDER, a youth of Abydos, who, swimming the h.e.l.lespont to see Hero, his love, was drowned
LEBADEA, site of the oracle of Trophomus
LEBYNTHOS, Aegean island
LEDA, Queen of Sparta, wooed by Jupiter in the form of a swan
LEIR, mythical King of Britain, original of Shakespeare's Lear
LELAPS, dog of Cephalus
LEMNOS, large island in the Aegean Sea, sacred to Vulcan
LEMURES, the spectres or spirits of the dead
LEO, Roman emperor, Greek prince
LETHE, river of Hades, drinking whose water caused forgetfulness
LEUCADIA, a promontory, whence Sappho, disappointed in love, was said to have thrown herself into the sea
LEUCOTHEA, a sea G.o.ddess, invoked by sailors for protection (See Ino)
LEWIS, son of Charlemagne
LIBER, ancient G.o.d of fruitfulness
LIBETHRA, burial place of Orpheus
LIBYA, Greek name for continent of Africa in general
LIBYAN DESERT, in Africa
LIBYAN OASIS
LICHAS, who brought the s.h.i.+rt of Nessus to Hercules
LIMOURS, Earl of
LINUS, musical instructor of Hercules
LIONEL, knight of the Round Table
LLYR, King of Britain
LOCRINE, son of Brutus in Albion, king of Central England
LOEGRIA, kingdom of (England)
LOGESTILLA, a wise lady, who entertained Rogero and his friends
LOGI, who vanquished Loki in an eating contest
LOKI, the Satan of Norse mythology, son of the giant Farbanti
LOT, King, a rebel chief, subdued by King Arthur, then a loyal knight
LOTIS, a nymph, changed to a lotus-plant and in that form plucked by Dryope
LOTUS EATERS, soothed to indolence, companions of Ulysses landing among them lost all memory of home and had to be dragged away before they would continue their voyage
LOVE (Eros) issued from egg of Night, and with arrows and torch produced life and joy
LUCAN, one of Arthur's knights
