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Oricum, C. iii. 16; takes possession of the Island at Brundisium, C. iii. 23; threatens the partisans of Caesar, C. iii. 24; withdraws from Brundisium, _ibid_. Liburni, an ancient people of Illyricum, inhabiting part of the present _Croatia_ Liger, or Ligeris, the _Loire_; one of the greatest and most celebrated rivers of France, said to receive one hundred and twelve rivers in its course; it rises in Velay, and falls into the Bay of Aquitain, below Nantz, G. iii. 5 Lig[)u]ria, a part of ancient Italy, extending from the Apennines to the Tuscan Sea, containing _Ferrara_, and the territories of _Genoa_ Limo, or Lim[=o]num, a city of ancient Gaul, _Poitiers_ Ling[)o]nes, a people of Gallia Belgica, inhabiting in and about _Langres_, in Champagne, G. i. 26, 40 Liscus, one of the Aedui, accuses Dumnorix to Caesar, G. i. 16, 17 Lissus, an ancient city of Macedonia, _Alessio_ Litavicus, one of the Aedui, G. vii. 37; his treachery and flight, G. vii. 38 Lucani, an ancient people of Italy, inhabiting the country now called _Basilicate_ Luceria, an ancient city of Italy, _Lucera_ Lucretius Vespillo, one of Pompey's followers, C. iii. 7 Lucterius or Laterius, one of the Cadurci, vii. 5, 7 Lusit[=a]nia, _Portugal_, a kingdom on the west of Spain, formerly a part of it Lusitanians, light-armed troops, C. i. 48 Lutetia, _Paris_, an ancient and famous city, now the capital of all France, on the river _Seine_ Lygii, an ancient people of Upper Germany, who inhabited the country now called _Silesia_, and on the borders of _Poland_ M[)a]c[)e]d[=o]nia, a large country, of great antiquity and fame, containing several provinces, now under the Turks Macedonian cavalry among Pompey's troops, C. iii. 4 Mae[=o]tis Palus, a vast lake in the north part of Scythia, now called _Marbianco_, or _Mare della Tana_. It is about six hundred miles in compass, and the river Tanais disembogues itself into it Maget[)o]br[)i]a, or Amagetobria, a city of Gaul, near which Ariovistus defeated the combined forces of the Gauls. It is supposed to correspond to the modern _Moigte de Broie_, near the village of _Pontailler_ Mandub[)i]i, an ancient people of Gaul, _l'Anxois_, in Burgundy; their famine and misery, G. vii. 78 Mandubratius, a Briton, G. v. 20 Marcellus, Caesar's enemy, G. viii 53 Marcius Crispus, is sent for a protection to the inhabitants of Thabena Marcomanni, a nation of the Suevi, whom Cluveri
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