=Íbycus=: of Rhegium, _fl._ _c._ 540 B.C. at the court of the despot of Samos; a lyric poet of the erotic type. The proverb, ‘the cranes of Ibycus’, arose from the story that, when being murdered by brigands near Corinth, he invoked a flock of cranes, then flying past, to avenge his death. Plutarch tells the sequel (_Garrulity_). =īno=: or Leucóthea; a mythological personage, daughter of Cadmus and wife of Athamas. One story went that, when she leapt into the sea, she was carried to Corinth by a dolphin. Hence the allusion in the story of Arion. =īphícrătes=: Athenian general in early part of the fourth century B.C. An innovator in tactics and military equipment, noted for his prudence and foresight. =Ischómăchus=: a character of the name appears in Xenophon’s _Oeconomicus_ as lecturing his wife upon the principles of domestic management. Such a philosophically disposed person may be the associate of Socrates mentioned by Plutarch. =Ithacans=: the people of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, one of the Ionian islands, south of Corfu. =Ixíon=: mythical Thessalian king, who made illicit love to Hera, wife of Zeus, and was punished by being fastened to a perpetually revolving wheel in Hades. =Laelius=: C. Laelius Sapiens, friend of Scipio Africanus Minor. Consul 140 B.C. Cicero’s _De Amicitia_ is otherwise named his _Laelius_. Philosopher, orator, and scholar. =Laértes=: aged father of Odysseus; superannuated king of Ithaca. =Lĕchaeum=: the port of Old Corinth, with which it was connected by walls one and a half miles in length. =Lēlántum=: a river of Euboea, flowing through the fertile Lelantine plain (between Chalcis and Eretria), which was long a bone of contention between the two cities. =Leónȋdas=: the famous Spartan king, who so stubbornly held the pass of Thermopylae against the Persians with his ‘Three Hundred’, 480 B.C. =Leptis=: a town in Africa near the modern Tripoli; a Phoenician settlement and afterwards a Roman colony. =Lesches=: one of the post-Homeric (‘Cyclic’) poets, and writer of the _Little Iliad_; a native of Lesbos, _fl._ _c._ 705 B.C. =Leuctra=: Boeotian village; the scene of the great defeat of the Spartans by Epaminondas, 371 B.C. =Livia=: Livia Drusilla, 56 B.C.-A.D. 29. Her first husband was Tiberius Claudius Nero, by whom she was the mother of Tiberius, the future emperor. Married to Augustus (then Octavianus) in 38 B.C., and having no children by him, she was anxious to keep the succession in her own family. A woman of strong character, she exerted a tactful control over Augustus and attempted one more imperious over Tiberius, but failed. =Locri=: Locri Epizephyrii, an important Greek town of South Italy, about the modern Gerace. Its constitutional code was often regarded as a model. =Locris=: a Greek community lying along the north side of the middle of the Corinthian Gulf. =Loxias=: Apollo as God of Oracles. The name was commonly interpreted as ‘Riddling’ or ‘Indirect’.