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Lactarius, Mons (_Monte Lettere_), description of, xi. 10; health-resort for consumptive patients, xi. 10.

Land surveying among the Romans, iii. 52.

Lard not to be exported from Italy, ii. 12.

Largesse (Regalia Dona, Donativum), Goths summoned to Court to receive, on the Ides of June, v. 26, 27; Starcedius' donative stopped on his retirement from service, v. 36.

Laurentius, Presbyter, accused of rifling graves, iv. 18.

Laurentius, Vir Experientissimus, ordered to collect in Istria stores of wine, oil, and corn for Ravenna, xii. 22, 23, 24.

Lawsuits not to be interminable, i. 5.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE, TEMPORARY, FORMULA COMMEATALIS AD TEMPUS, vii. 36.

Lenormant, his work 'La Grande Grèce' quoted, 7, 8, 71.

Leodifrid, _see_ under Sajo.

Leontius, Vir Spectabilis, his dispute about boundaries with Paschasius, iii. 52.

Leontius, Praefecture of, 105.

Letters, origin of, from imitation of flight of cranes, viii. 12.

Leucothea, Fountain of, its marvellous qualities, viii. 33.

Liber, derivation of, xi. 38.

Liberius (1), Praetorian Praefect under Theodoric (493-500), 16; ii. 15, 16; his fidelity to Odovacar, ii. 16; conduct in assignment of 'Tertiae,' ii. 16; father of Venantius, ii. 15; arranged gift from Theodoric to ex-Emperor (?) Romulus, iii. 35.

Liberius (2), Spectabilis (possibly son of preceding), complains of unjust judgment by Marabad, iv. 47.

Liberius (3), Senator, sent as ambassador by Theodahad to Justinian, 45.

Liberius (4, probably same as No. 3), Patrician, Praetorian Praefect of the Gauls (526), viii. 6; xi. 1.

Liberius (5), second husband of Aetheria, iv. 12.

Lictor, apostrophised by Cassiodorus in his 'Indulgentia,' xi. 40.

Liguria, Province of, ships ordered from Ravenna to, ii. 20; the Gepidae on their way to Gaul to march peaceably through, v. 10, 11; obscure allusion to troubles in, viii. 16; famine in 'Liguria industriosa' to be relieved by corn-distribution, x. 27; relief of 'devota Liguria,' xi. 15, 16; Consularis of, addressed, xii. 8; invaded by the Burgundians, xii. 28; plunder-raid of Alamanni into, xii. 28; famine in, relieved, xii. 28.

Lime, the praises of, vii. 17.

Lime-kilns, President of, PRAEPOSITUS CALCIS, FORMULA OF, vii. 17.

Lucania, Province of, Eusebius is recommended to take holiday in, iv. 48; rustics of, at Feast of St. Cyprian, viii. 33; Campanianus, inhabitant of, ix. 4; 'Montuosa Lucania' abounded in swine, xi. 39; measures for relief of, during presence of Gothic army, xii. 5. (_See_ also Bruttii.)

Lucrine Port (?) to furnish tiles for repair of walls of Rome, i. 25.

Lucullanum, Castrum (_Castel dell Ovo_, at Naples), property at, given by Theodoric to Tulum, and by Athalaric to Joannes, viii. 25 (_see_ note, p. 374).

Lydus, Joannes, civil servant in Constantinople under Justinian, author of 'De Dignitatibus;' his account of the dignity of the Praetorian Praefect, 40; on the official staff of the Praetorian Praefect, 94-114; his disappointment with the emoluments of the Cornicularius, 101; as to salutation of Praetorian Praefect, 297; as to Scholares, 302; jealousy of Magistriani, 303; as to supply of paper for law courts, xi. 38.