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Lycaonʹian Tables [Lycaoniæmensæ]

Execrable food. Lycaʹon, desirous of testing the divine knowledge of Jove, who had honoured him with a visit, served up human flesh on his table; for which the god changed him into a wolf.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Lusus
Lusus Naturæ
Lutestring
Lutetia
Luther’s Hymn
Lutherans
Lutin
Luxembergers
Luz or Luez
Lybius (Sir)
Lycaonian Tables [Lycaoniæmensæ]
Lycidas
Lycisca (half-wolf, half-dog)
Lycopodium
Lydford Law
Lydia
Lydia Languish
Lydian Poet (The)
Lying Traveller (The)
Lying by the Wall
Lying for the Whetstone