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2. A seaport on the island of Lipari: the chief town of the group. Lipari Islands. A group of volcanic islands north of Sicily: the ancient Æoliæ, Vulcaniæ, etc., Insulæ. The principal islands are Lipari, Strom boli, Panaria, Vulcano, Filicuri (or Filicudi), and Alicuri (or Alicudi). They are the scene of ancient legends; were occupied by the Saracens and Normans; and were finally annexed to Sicily, now belonging to the province of Me ina. Area, 45 square miles. Population, 17,312. Lipetsk (le-petsk'). A town in the government of Tamboff, central Ru ia, situated at the junction of the Lipovka with the Lesnoi-Voronezh, 82 miles west by south of Tamboff. It has mineral springs. Pop. (1893), 16,834. Lippa (lip'po). A town in the county of Temes, Hungary, situated on the Maros 30 miles northeast of Temesvár. Population (1890), 7,000. grief or lamentation, of Eastern origin, personified in ancient Greek poetry through ignorance of its meaning. The words were carried acro the western sea to men of an alien race and language. "Cry ailinon, ailinon! woe, woe!" says the Greek poet of Athens, and already in Homeric days the dirge was attributed to a mythic Linos whose tragic fate was commemorated in its opening words: "O Linos , Linos!" Linos, however, had no existence except in a popular etymology; the Greek ailinos is in reality the Phœnician ailénu , "alas for us!" with which the lamentations for the death of the divine Adonis were wont Sayce , Anc. Babylonians, p. 228. to begin. Linz (lints). The capital of Upper Austria, situ ated on the Danube in lat. 48° 17′ N., long. 14° 17' E. It has flourishing manufactures and trade, and contains a cathedral and a museum. It was unsucce fully besieged by insurgent peasants in 1626, and was taken by the Bavarians in 1741. Here, May 17, 1809, the troops of Saxony and Würtemberg defeated the Austrians. Linz. A small town in the Rhine Province, Pru ia, on the Rhine 15 miles southeast of Bonn. Population (1890), 47,685.