LYCAMBES, (see ARCHILOCHUS). LvctioN, king of Arcadia, son of Pelasgus and Melibcea, built Lyasera at the base of Mount Lycmus, and was changed into a wolf by Jupiter for offering human victims on Pan's altars, or for once serving up human flesh to Jupiter to test his divinity, when once he visited the earth in man's form to witness the wickedness and impiety of men. Lycaon had fifty sons, who (except the eldest, Nyc timus, who succeeded him), were, with him self, destroyed by Jupiter's bolts or made wolves. (See CALLISTO and ARCTOS, 2.) LYCAONIA, 4P-CII-J,,'-f-a, the south-east part of Phrygia, inhabited by the L„fcenines. LYCEUM, /5-a-am, a celebrated gymnasium near the temple of Apollo Lyee'us (either as wolf-slayer, from Al;siie, wolf, or light-giver, from light, or L.Pcius, from his oracle at PatSra, in Lye/a), near the Ilissus, south-east of Athens, was the seat of the Peripatetic school. LIMA, -cl-a, a district of Asia Minor, bounded S. by the Mediterranean, W. by
Carla, E. by Pamphylia, N. by Phrygia, was anciently called Mily'as and Termite from its Cretan settlers, the M4m (or Si.ilfmi) and Termilm, and Lycia from its Athenian immi grant chief, Pandion's son I4c'us, who was banished by his brother .1Egeus. The Lycians maintained their independence against the powerful King Crcesus, of LyBla, but they fell under Cyrus, and were allowed by the Persians to retain their own kings on paying an annual tribute. They passed with Persia to the Ma cedonian empire, and afterwards were ceded to the Seleucidx, and Lycia was made a Roman province under Claudius. Apollo had a celebrated oracle at Patara ; and Lycia is famous in mythology in connection with the legends of Bellerophon and the Chimaera, the Harpies and the daughters of Panarees.
Lvous, -d-us (see LYCEUM).