Lachmann, Karl, a German philologist and classical scholar, born at Brunswick, professor at Berlin; besides sundry of the Latin classics, in particular Lucretius, he edited the Nibelungen Lied, and the Greek New Testament, as well as contributed important critical essays on the composition of the “Iliad,” which he regarded as a collection of lays from various independent sources (1783-1851). See Iliad.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Lachesis * Lachryma Christi