This circumstance is the Last which the Scripture re- cords of the history of Lot, and the time and place of his death are unknown. A traditional respect has been shown to his memory (also that of his wife, who is call- ed Edith, Vi'^l'^S [one of his daughters being called
Plutith, ni::lb5], in the tract Pirke Elieser, ch. xxv) by the Talnnidists (see Otho's Lex. Rahh. p. 389) and Arabs (see llerbelot, BihUoth. Orient, ii, 495) ; and the ]\Iohammedans still point out his grave in the village of Beni-Nain, east of Hebron (Robinson, Researches, ii, 187). For the pretty legend of the repentance of Lot, and of the tree that he planted, which, being cut down for use in the building of the Temple, was aiterwards em- ployed for the cross, see Fabricius, Cod. Pseiukp. V. T. p. 428-431. The IMohammedan traditions of Lot are con- tained in the Koran, chiefly in chap, vii and xi ; others are given by D'llerbelot (s. v. Loth). According to these statements, he was sent to the inhabitants of the live cities as a preacher, to warn them against the un- natural and horrible sins which they practiced— sins which Mohammed is continually denouncing, but with less success than that of drunkenness, since the former is perhaps the most common, the latter the rarest vice of Eastern cities. From Lot's connection M'ith the in- habitants of Sodom, his name is now given not only to the vice in question (Freytag, Lexicon, iv, 136 a), but also to the people of the five cities themselves — the La- thi, or Kuum Loth. The local name of the Dead Sea is Bahr J At — Sea of Lot. See Niemeyer, Charakt. ii, 185 sq. ; Blaufurs, Le Loti hospitcditate (Jena, 1751); Kcir- ner, De indole genei-oi-um Lothi (Weissenf. 1755) ; Seiden- striicker, in the Schleswig Journal, 1792, vol. vi, and in Hencke's Magaz. iii, 07 sq. ; Bauer, Mgthol. d. llebr. i, 238 sq. ; Kitto's Daily Bible Illust. ad loc.
Lo'tan (Heb. Lotan', "piP, coverer; Sept. Awrav), the first-named of the sons of Seir, the Horite, and a petty prince of Idumasa prior to the supremacy of the Esauites (Gen. xxxvi, 20, 29 ; 1 Chron. i, 38). His sons are mentioned as being Hori and Hemam or Homam, and his sister as being named Timna (Gen. xxxvi, 22 ; 1 Chron. i, 39), by which latter he was allied to Esau's oldest son (Gen. xxxvi, 12). B.C. cir. 1927.
Lothaire of Lorraine. See Hincmar; Nicho- las I {pope).
Lothaire I. See Loris le Di^bonnaire; Pas- chal I (pope).
Lothaire II, sometimes called Lothaire of Sax- ony, succeeded Henry V as emperor of Germany in 1 125. Lothaire was born in 1075, and was the son of (iebhard, count of Arnsberg. He is noted in Church history for the part he took in the struggle against Innocent II, whom he installed in Kome in 1136, a service for which he was rewarded by the papal incumbent Avith cnrona- tion at Rome (comp. the comments on this act by Lea, Studies in Ch. Hist. p. 37, note). He died in 1 137. — Jaffe, Gesch. des deutschen Reiches iinter Lothnr von Sachsen (1843). See Innocent II.
Lothasu'bus (Aoj^aaoir/Soc, Yulg. .4 busthas v. r. Sabiis), one of the supporters of Esdras as he read the law (1 Esd. ix,44) ; evidently the Hashuji (q. v.) of the Heb. text ( Neh. vii. 22).
Lots, Feast of. See Puriji.
Lot's Wife. See Lot.
Lotto, LoincNzo, a celebrated Venetian painter of the 16th century, is supposed by some to have l)een a native of Bergamo, but by others a native of Venice. Lotto lived, besides, at Bergamo, also some time at Tre- vigi, at Recanati, and at Loretto, where he died. His works range from 1513 to 1554. Lanzi ventures an opinion that Lotto's best works could scarcely be sur- passed by Raffaelle or by Correggio, if treating the same subject. His masterpieces are the IMadonnas of St. Bar- tolomeo and Santo Spirito, at Bergamo. — English Cydo- jxedia. s. V.
Lotus. See Lily.
Loudun, Convent of. See Grandier.
Louis (<ir Luis) de Granada, a Spanish ascetic, theologian, and writer, was born at Granada in 1504. In 1524 he joined the Dominicans, in the convent of
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Santa Cniz of Granada. In 15"29 he was, on account of his great reputation, transferred to tlie convent of St. Gregory at Valladolid, where he attracted much atten- tion by his preaching. He was afterwards recalled to Granada, to reform the convent of Scala Coeli, in the Sierra de Cordova. In the solitude of this convent he composed a number of religious works. He next went to Cordova as preacher, and became acquainted with John of Avila (q. v."), wlio acquired great intluence over liim. After spending eiglit years in Cordova, Louis went to Badajoz, where he founded a convent, of which he was the tirst abbot. Cardinal Henrj-, infant of Spain and archbishop of Ebora, desiring to avail himself of Louis's talents, attached him to liis diocese. The queen of Portugal vainly oifered to make him bishop of Viseu, and afterwards metropolitan of Braga; he accepted no office whatever, except that of provincial of his order in Portugal, wliich lie held for some years. He tinally re- tired into the convent of Santa Domingo of Lisbon, and devoted the remainder of his life to pastoral duties and to writing religious works. He died Dec. 31, 1588. His works, a large number of which were translated into French, Italian, and German, are very numerous ; among them the most important are, Memorial de la vida Chris- tiana (Salamanca, 15CG, 2 vols. 8vo; Barcelona, 1614, fol.) : — Sinibolo de la Fe (Salamanca, l58"2,fol. ; often re- printed and translated) : — Gvida de Pecadores (Sala- manca, 1570,8vo) : — Compendia de la dottrina Christiana (Lisbon, 15G4; Madrid, 1595, 4to) : — Insiitucion y regla de Men vivirpai-a los que empiecan a sei-vir a Dios (Bar- celona, 1566, 8vo; Madrid, 1616): — Libro de la Oracion y Meditacion (Salamanca, 1567, 8 vo) : — Collectanea mo- ralis Philosopki(e (Lisbon, 1571, 3 vols. 8vo ; Paris, 1582 ; and under the XitXuLoci cominitnes Philosophice moralis, Ct>logne, 1604) : — Rhelorica ecdesiastica (Lisbon, 1576, 4to), etc. ; and a number of sermons. See Louis Munos, La Vida y Virtudes de Luiz de Grenada (IMadrid, 1639, 4to) ; N. Antonio, Bibliotheca IJispana, iv ; Quetil and Echard, Scri2)fores ordines Prcvdica/onim, ii ; Tournon, Hommes illustres de Vordi-e de Saint-Dominique. — Her- zog, Real-EncyMop. viii. 516 ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biorj. Gem- rale, xxxi, 1034 sq. ( J. N. P.)