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L HWYD, or LHUYD (Humphry), a learned antiquary, was born at Denbigh, and educated at Brazen-nose college, Oxford, where he applied to the study of physic, and practised with reputation at his native place. He died about 1570. He wrote several books, the chief of which are, 1. Commentarioli Britannica Descriptionis Fragmentum, 1572; a new edition of this work appeared by Moses Williams in 1731, 4to, and an English translation by Thomas Twyne in 1753, under the title of the Breviary of Britain. 2. De Monâ Druidum Insula, Antiquitati suæ restituta, 1568. 3. Chronicon Walliæ, a Rege Cadwalladero, asque ad ann. Dom. 1294, MS. 4. The History of Cambria, now called Wales; this was published by Dr. David Powel in 1584, 4to.

LHUYD (Edward), a Welsh antiquary, was educated at Jesus college, Oxford, where he took his degree of M. A. in 1701. He succeeded his tutor Dr. Plot as keeper of the Ashmolean museum, and applied himself with great assiduity to the searching out of the antiquities of his native country. He made very large collections, and died in 1709. He communicated many observations to bishop Gibson, and revised his edition of Camden's Britannia. He published Archæologia Britannica, giving some Account, additional to what has been hitherto published, of the Languages, Histories, and Customs, of the original Inha bitants of Great Britain, &c. vol. I. fol. Oxford, 1707. He left in MS, a Scottish or Irish-English Dictionary, and other curious proofs of his great learning and industry.

LIABLE. a. (liable, from lier, old French.) Obnoxious; not exempt; subject (Milton)." LIAR. 8. (from lie.) One who tells falsehoods; one who wants veracity (Shakspeare). LVARD. a. Mingled roan (Markham). LIATRIS. In botany, a genus of the class syngenesia, order polygamia æqualis. Receptacle naked; calyx oblong, imbricate; down feathery, coloured. Eight species; native herbs of Virginia or Carolina.

LIBANIUS, a famous Greek rhetorician
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and sophist in the 4th century, was born at Antioch, and had a great share in the friendship of Julian the Apostate. That prince offered him the dignity of Præfectus Prætorio; but Libanius refused it, thinking the name of sophist, or professor of eloquence, much more honourable. There are still extant several of his letters and Greek orations, by which he acquired great reputation: but his style is somewhat affected and obscure. He was a pagan. Basil and Chrysostom were his disciples, about the year 360. His letters were published at Amsterdam in 1738; his orations at Venice, 1755.

LIBANOMANTIA, in antiquity, a species of divination performed with frankincense; which, if it presently caught fire, and sent forth a grateful odour, was esteemed a happy omen, and vice versâ.

LIBANUS, the name of a chain of moun tains of Turkey in Asia, which lie between Proper Syria and Palestine, extending, from west to east, from the Mediterranean sea as far as Arabia. The summits of these mountains are so high, that they are always covered with snow; but below are very pleasant and fruitful valleys. They were formerly famous for the great number of cedar trees growing thereon; but now there are very few remaining. Geographers distinguish this chain into Libanus and Antilibanus; the latter of which lies on the south side of the valley, rising near the ruins of Sidon, and terminates at others in Arabia, in N. lat. 34. They are separated from each other at an equal distance throughout, and form a bason or country called by the ancients Colo-Syria.

LIBATION, amongst the Greeks and Romans, was an essential part of solemn sacrifices. It was also performed alone, as a drink-offering, by way of procuring the protection and favour of the gods, in the ordinary affairs of life. Libations, according to the different natures of the gods in honour of whom they were made, consisted of different liquids, but wine was the most usual. The wine offered to the gods was always unmixed with water. We meet with libations of water, libations of honey, libations

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