French money of account, containing 20 sols. See Monner-Taille.

Lixa, or Lixus (anc. geogr.) a town on the Atlantic near the river Lixus; made a Roman colony by Claudius Caesar; famous in mythology for the palace of Anteus and his encounter with Hercules, (Pliny). Now Larache, sixty-five leagues to the south of the straits of Gibraltar.