Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . llected by Slommsen {Inscr. Regn. 50—54). The neighbourhood of Luceria was ce-lebrated in ancient, as it still is in modern, times forthe abundance and excellence of its wool ( iii. 15. 14), an advantage which was indeedcommon to all the neighbouring district of Apulia.(Strab. vi. p. 284; Plin. viii. 48; K. Craven, Suicth-em Tour, p. 45.) Ptolemy writes the name Nuceria; and that this isnot merely an error of the MbS. in our existingcopies is shown by the circumstance that the epithetApula is added to it (NovKfpia AirovXwv Viol.
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . llected by Slommsen {Inscr. Regn. 50—54). The neighbourhood of Luceria was ce-lebrated in ancient, as it still is in modern, times forthe abundance and excellence of its wool ( iii. 15. 14), an advantage which was indeedcommon to all the neighbouring district of Apulia.(Strab. vi. p. 284; Plin. viii. 48; K. Craven, Suicth-em Tour, p. 45.) Ptolemy writes the name Nuceria; and that this isnot merely an error of the MbS. in our existingcopies is shown by the circumstance that the epithetApula is added to it (NovKfpia AirovXwv Viol. § 72), as if to distinguish it from other towns ofthe name. Appian also writes the name Nouicepia{B. C. ii. 38): and the same confusion between No-cera and Lucera occurs perpetually in the middleages. But the coiTectness of the orthography ofLuceria is well established by inscriptions and latter, which iiave the name Lovceri inRoman characters, are certainly not earlier than theestablishment of the Koman colony. [E. H. B.]. coin of luceria. LUCEIUM. [Blucium.]LUCENSES, CALLAICL []LUCENTUM (Plin. iii. 3. s. 4 ; Lucentia, Mela,ii. 6. § 6; AovKevroi ^ AovKivrov, Ptol. ii. 6. § 14:Alicante), a city on the sea-coast of the Contestani,in Hispania Tarraconensis, with the Latin franchise.(Marca, Hisp. ii. 6 ; Ukert, ii. 1. p. 403.) [P. S.]LUCINAE 0PPIDU5L [Ilithvia.]LUCOPIBIA (Aoi/KOTrigia), in North Britain,mentioned by Ptolemy (ii. 3) as one of the towns ofthe Novantae (^Gallotoat/), Rhetigoninm being theother. Probably, this lay on Imz-b Bay, in The Monumenta Brilcumica suggestsBrovqhtern. and Whiterne. [R. G. L.] LUCRETILIS I\I0NS (lifonte Gennaro), amountain in the land of the Sabines, whose name isknown to us only from the mention of it by Horace,who calls it the pleasant Lucretilis, whose shadescould allure Fannus himself from Mount Lycaeum.(Hor. Carm. i. 17.) It is evident from the expres-sions of the poet that it was in the immediate
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