. A New general dictionary of arts and sciences, or, Compleat system of universal knowledge. es de latere, and legates by office, orlegati nati : of thefe the moft confiderable are thelegate a latere, the next are the legates de the article A Latere. Legates by office are thofe who have not any par-ticular legation given them, but who by virtue oftheir dignity and rank in the church become legates ;fuch are the archbifhops of Rheims and Aries ; butthe authority of thefe legates is much inferior tothat of the legates a latere. LEGATUS, in Roman antiquity, a militaryofficer who comman


. A New general dictionary of arts and sciences, or, Compleat system of universal knowledge. es de latere, and legates by office, orlegati nati : of thefe the moft confiderable are thelegate a latere, the next are the legates de the article A Latere. Legates by office are thofe who have not any par-ticular legation given them, but who by virtue oftheir dignity and rank in the church become legates ;fuch are the archbifhops of Rheims and Aries ; butthe authority of thefe legates is much inferior tothat of the legates a latere. LEGATUS, in Roman antiquity, a militaryofficer who commanded as deputy of the chief ge-neral. LEGEND, an idle or ridiculous fiory told bythe Romaniffs concerning tlieir faints, and otherperfons, in oider to fupport the credit of their re-ligion. LEGER-Line, in mufic, one added to the flafFof five lines, when the afcending or defcendingnotes run very high or low : there are fometimesmany of thefe lines both above and below the ftaff,to the number of four or five. LEGGIARDO, or Leggiardemente, in mufic, ■trtC /V.^iTi: xji^vi. x^/r(iyyuj\,c\\ tJ^u/. 2 . ^r/iJ. x> Bx K. tVvdccv>b^^ o r M E -M-M z^ • ^cyS. <=^^aat^Ji/ru£r^t/i^r/.


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