Chapter L

Lacedaemon, 51, 98, 99, 117, 179, 189, 229.

Lachărēs, an Athenian demagogue (fl. 296), 195.

Lachēs, Athenian general; fell at Mantineia, 418. A Dialogue of Plato
bears his name, 19.

Lachĕsis, one of the Fates, 37, 308, 315.

Lamia, 89.

Lamprias, Plutarch’s brother (also the name of his grandfather); a
speaker in the First and Third Pythian Dialogues and in the _Face in
the Moon_. Cp. _Sympos._ 2, 2; 4, 5; 9, 15.

Lamprocles, 35.

Latōna, 232.

Law Courts, the, 17.

Lebadeia, near the western frontier of Boeotia, the seat of the oracle
of Trophonius, 120, 157.

Lēda, daughter of Thestius, and mother of Helen and Clytaemnēstra,
Castor, and Polydeuces, 95.

Lemnos, 290.

Leontĭdes, one of the polemarchs at Thebes, 8, 10, 11, 12, 47, 49.

Leontīni, a city of Sicily, 22.

Lesbos, 194.

Leschenorian, 60.

Lēthē (‘Oblivion’), 209.

Leucas, Leucadia, 184, 193.

Leuctra, a village of Boeotia, between Thespiae and Plataea (famous for
the battle between the Spartans and Thebans in 371), 88.

Libya (Africa), 103, 108, 185, 296.

Lindos, a town on the eastern coast of Rhodes, 61.

Livia, the empress, wife of Augustus, and mother, by her first
marriage, of Tiberius (d. A. D. 29), 62.

Locris, 193.

Lucania, 22.

Lucius, a speaker in the Dialogue on the _Face in the Moon_.

Lycians, 138, 139.

Lyciscus, 177.

Lycormae, 195.

Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver, ninth century, 99.

Lycuria (an ancient name for the summit of Parnassus), a village near
the Corycian cave, 82.

Lydia, 121.

Lydiădas, 183.

Lysander, the Spartan naval commander who finished the Peloponnesian
war. He fell in battle against the Thebans, 395, at Haliartus (see
his _Life_, c. 29): 109.

Lysanorĭdas, 8, 10, 12, 43, 51.

Lysimăchus, 189.

Lysis, a Pythagorean teacher, driven from Italy to Thebes, where he
died, 7, 13, 15, 21, 24, 27.

Lysitheides, 7.

Lysitheüs, 48.