He wrote (1) _Antapodoseos, seu rerum per Europam gestarum, Libri VI_,
an historical narrative, relating to the events from 887 to 949,
compiled with the object of avenging himself upon Berengar and Willa
his queen; (2) _Historia Ottonis_, a work of greater impartiality and
merit, unfortunately covering only the years from 960 to 964; and (3)
the _Relatio de Legatione Constantinopolitana_ (968-969). All are to
be found in the _Monum. Germ. Hist_. of Pertz, and in the _Rer. Ital.
Script_. of Muratori; there is an edition by E. Dümmler (1877), and a
partial translation into German, with an introduction by W.
Wattenbach, is given in the second volume of the _Geschichtsschreiber
der deutschen Vorzeit_ (1853). Compare Wattenbach, _Deutschlands
Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter_. Three other works, entitled
_Adversaria, Chronicon, 606-960_, and _Opusculum de vitis Romanorum
pontificum_, are usually, but wrongly, assigned to Liudprand. An
English translation of the embassy to Constantinople is in Ernest
Henderson's _Select Documents of the Middle Ages_ (Bohn series, 1896).
A complete bibliography is in A. Potthast's _Bibl. Hist. Medii Aevi_
(Berlin, 1896).
LIVE OAK, a city and the county-seat of Suwannee county, Florida,
U.S.A., 81 m. by rail W. of Jacksonville. Pop. (1890) 687; (1900) 1659;
(1905) 7200; (1910) 3450. Live Oak is served by the Atlantic Coast Line,
the Seaboard Air Line, the Live Oak, Perry & Gulf and the Florida
railways. There are extensive areas of pine lands in the vicinity, and
large quantities of sea-island cotton are produced in the county. Lumber
and naval stores are also important products. The first settlement on
the site of the city was made in 1865 by John Parshley, of
Massachusetts, who erected a large saw-mill here. Live Oak was first
incorporated as a town in 1874, and in 1903 was chartered as a city.
LIVER (O. Eng. _lifer_; cf. cognate forms, Dutch _lever_, Ger. _Leber_,
Swed. _lefver_, &c.; the O. H. Ger. forms are _libara, lipora_, &c.; the
Teut. word has been connected with Gr. [Greek: hêpar] and Lat. _jecur_),
in anatomy, a large reddish-brown digestive gland situated in the upper
and right part of the abdominal cavity. When hardened _in situ_ its
shape is that of a right-angled, triangular prism showing five
surfaces--superior, anterior, inferior, posterior and right lateral
which represents the base of the prism. It weighs about three pounds or
one-fortieth of the body Weight.
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