or Libya, a name anciently given to all that part of Africa lying between the border of Egypt and the river Triton; and comprehending Cyrenaica, Marmarica, and the Regio Syrtica. See these articles.

LYCÆUM, in Grecian antiquity, an academy situated on the banks of the Ilissus at Athens. It was composed of porticoes and walks, where Aristotle taught philosophy; walking there constantly every day till the hour of anointing, whence he and his followers had the name of Peripatetics.

LYCÆUS, (anc. geog.), a mountain of Arcadia, sacred to Jupiter; whence Jupiter Lyceus, (Pliny.) Sacred also to Pan, (Virgil): and hence Lycean, the rites performed to Pan on this mountain; which Evander carrying with him to Latium, were called Lupercales, (Virgil).