Leda, i. 33; iii. 13, 16. Leonidas, the hero of Thermopylæ, i. 13; iii. 3, 4, 14; viii. 52. Leontini, the birth-place of the famous Gorgias, vi. 17. Leprosy, cure for, v, 5. (Credat Judæus Apella!) Lesbos, iii. 2; iv. 35; x. 19, 24. Lescheos, author of the _Capture of Ilium_, x. 25, 26, 27. Leto, (the Latin _Latona_,) i. 18, 31; iii. 20; viii. 53. Leucippus, his love for Daphne, viii. 20. Leuctra, i. 13; iv. 26; viii. 27; ix. 6, 13, 14. Libya, famous for wild beasts, ii. 21. Libyssa, where Hannibal died, viii. 11. Linus, ix. 29. Lipara, x. 11, 16. Lophis, story about, ix. 33. (Cf. story of Jephthah.) Lounges, iii. 14, 15; x. 25. Lots, iv. 3; v. 25. Love, its power, vii. 19. Success in love, vii. 26. Cure of melancholy caused by, vii. 5. Little sympathy with lovers from older people, vii. 19. Tragedies through love, i. 30; vii 21; viii. 20. Lycomidæ, i. 22; iv. 1; ix. 27, 30. Lycortas, iv. 29; vii. 9; viii. 50. Lycurgus, the famous legislator, iii. 2, 14, 16, 18; v. 4. Lygdamis, the father of Artemisia, iii. 11. Lygdamis, the Syracusan, as big as Hercules, v. 8. Lynceus, son of Aphareus, his keen eyesight, iv. 2. Slain by Pollux, iv. 3. Lynceus, the husband of Hypermnestra, ii. 19, 21, 25. Succeeds Danaus, ii. 16. Lyre, invented by Hermes, v. 14; viii. 17. First used by Amphion, ix. 5. Lysander, iii. 5, 6, 8, 11, 17, 18; ix. 32; x. 9. Lysippus, a Sicyonian statuary, i. 43; ii. 9, 20; vi. 1, 2, 4, 5, 14, 17; ix. 27, 30. Lysis, the early schoolmaster of Epaminondas, ix. 13. Macaria, i. 32. Machærion, viii. 11. Machaon, son of Æsculapius, ii. 11, 23, 26, 38; iii. 26; iv. 3. Machinery, or mechanism, at Olympia, vi. 20. At Jerusalem, viii. 16. Mæander, river in Asia Minor, famous for its windings, v. 14; vii. 2; viii. 7, 24, 31; x. 32. Magic, v. 27. Maneros, the Egyptian Linus, ix. 29. Mantinea, ii. 8; viii. 3, 8, 12. Manto, daughter of Tiresias, vii. 3; ix. 10, 33. Marathon, i. 15, 32; iv. 25; x. 20. Mardonius, son of Gobryas, i. 1, 27; iii. 4; vii. 25; ix. 1, 2, 23. Panic of his men, i. 40; ix. 25. Marpessa, the Widow, viii. 47, 48. Marsyas, i. 24; ii. 7; viii. 9; x. 30. Martiora, ix. 21. Mausoleums, viii. 16. Mausolus, viii. 16. Medea, ii. 3, 12; viii. 11. Medusa, the Gorgon, i. 21; ii. 20, 21; v. 10, 12, 18; viii. 47; ix. 34. Megalopolis, ii. 9, 27; iv. 29; vi. 12; viii. 27, 30, 33; ix. 14. Its theatre, ii. 27. Megara, i. 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44; vii. 15. Megaris, i. 39, 44. Meleager, ii. 7; iv. 2; x. 31. Melicerta, i. 44; ii. 1; ix. 34. Memnon, his statue, i. 42. Memnonides, birds so called, x. 31. Memphis, i. 18. Menander, i. 2, 21. Menelaus, the son of Atreus and husband of Helen, iii. 1, 14, 19; v. 18; x. 25, 26. Menestratus, ix. 26. Miletus, vii. 2, 24; viii. 24, 49; x. 33.