a country of Italy, and a part of Magna Graecia; bounded on the north by the river Silarus by which it was separated from the Picentini, and by the river Bradanus by which it was parted from the Apuli Peucetii; on the south by the Laus, which separated it from the Brutti; on the east by the Sinus Tarentinus; and on the west by the Tuscan sea. Lucani, the people, descendants of the Samnites. Lucanus the epithet, (Horace). Luca boves denoted elephants; first seen in Pyrrhus's wars in Lucania, whence the appellation (Pliny).