Chapter Liebenstein and Sternfels to Lilly of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Lightning Protectors. Jupiter chose the eagle as the most approved preservative against lightning, Augustus Cæsar the sea-calf, and Tiberius the laurel.—Collumella, x. ; Suetonius: In Vit. Aug., xc.; Suetonius: In Vita Tib., lxix.

Houseleek, called “Jupiter’s Beard,” is a defence against lightning and evil spirits; hence Charlemagne’s edict—

Et habeat quisque supra domum suum Jovis barbam.

Lightwood (Mortimer), a solicitor, who conducts the “Harmon murder” case. He is the great friend of Eugene Wrayburn, barrister-at-law, and it is the great ambition of his heart to imitate the nonchalance of his friend. At one time Mortimer Lightwood admired Bella Wilfer.—Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (1864).

Ligurian Republic (The), Venetia, Genoa, and part of Sardinia, formed by Napoleon I. in 1797.

Ligurian Sage (The), Aulus Persius Flaccus, the satirist (34-62).

Likenesses Repeated.

(1) Strabo (father of Pompey) and his cook were exactly alike.

(2) Sura (proconsul of Sicily) and a fisherman were so much alike that Sura asked the fisherman if his mother had ever been in Rome. “No,” said the man, “but my father has.”

(3) Walter de Hempsham abbot of Canterbury and his shepherd were so alike that when the shepherd was dressed in the abbot’s gown, even king John was deluded by the resemblance.—Percy: Reliques (“King John and the abbot of Canterbury,” q.v.).

(4) The brothers Antipholus, the brothers Dromio, the brothers Menæchmus (called by Plautus, Sosicles and Menæchmus), were exactly alike.

Likstrond, the abode, after death, of perjurers, assassins, and seducers. The word means “strand of corpses.” Nestrond is the strand or shore of the dead.—Scandinavian Mythology.

Lilburn (John), a contentious leveller in the Commonwealth, of whom it was said, If no one else were alive, John would quarrel with Lilburn. The epigrammatic epitaph of John Lilburn is as follows:—

Is John departed, and is Lilburn gone?
Farewell to both, to Lilburn and to John!
Yet being gone, take this advice from me:
Let them not both in one grave buried be.
Here lay ye John; lay Lilburn thereabout;
For if they both should meet, they would fall out.

Lili, immortalized by Goethe, was Anna Elizabeth Schönemann, daughter of a Frankfort banker. She was 16 when Goethe first knew her.

Lilies (City of), Florence.

Lilinau, a woman wooed by a phantom that lived in her father’s pines. At nightfall the phantom whispered love, and won the fair Lilinau, who followed his green waving plume through the forest, but never more was seen.—American-Indian Legend.

Told she the tale of the fair Lilinau, who was wooed by a phantom
That through the pinès o’er her father’s lodge, in the hush of the twilight,
Breathed like the evening wind, and whispered love to the maiden;
Till she followed his green and waving plume tho’ the forest,
And never more returned, nor was seen again by her people.
   —Longfellow: Evangeline, ii. 4 (1849).