a country of Italy, and a part of Magna Grecia; 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 Laii, 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). Lucae boves denoted elephants; first seen in Pyrrhus's wars in Lucania, whence the appellation (Pliny).