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LIXA

Volume 12 · 47 words · 1823 Edition

or Lixus, in Ancient Geography, 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, 65 leagues to the south of the straits of Gibraltar.