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migratory tribes like Brinjaris in India. They are very dirty, and have scant clothing. They wear bone ornaments, shells, and flowers, with balls hanging from their. matted locks, Lamb-ma . Lammas. The feast of 1st August, when the flocks used to be ble ed (as they still are in Italy) in the churches. Lamech. A Hebrew patriarch (Gen. iv, 19; v, 26) who had two wives ’Adah (“ornament”), and Silah (“shade”). His father was Me thu selah (“sent forth”), son of Enoch (or otherwise a descendant only), but the name Lamek is apparently not Semitic, but means either “strong” (Akkadian /am), or perhaps “ ploughman,’ from the Akkadian lam “ plough” (see Enoch, which is also Akkadian). Lamia. Lamma. Akkadian: lamma “strong,” “ giant”: otherwise called An-dam “strong god.” In A yrian the lamma becomes /ama u. The word appears to be the Chinese lang “strong”; and the lung is the dragon who represents the refreshing wind. From this source perhaps came the name of the Lamia among the Greeks—a monster said to tear children to pieces, and to devour the raw flesh. The female Lamia was a serpent, dragon, or demon. In Krete Lamia aud Aukhesia were said to be two virgins from Troizené, adored with Eleusinian rites. The Epidaurians were commanded by an oracle to raise statues to them during a dearth. Homer speaks of Lamiz as giants, children of Poseidén and of Lamia, queen of Libya, Lamia, beloved of Zeus, became the mother of the sibyl Hérophilé; and as Skulla (Seylla, the demon of the rock) she is also the daughter of Belos. The Lamii were represented as goats with horse’s hoofs, and Lamia had the head and breasts of a woman, with a serpent’s body and tail, in Africa. The Lami allured strangers (and hence came the legend of Mel us in a and her human lover), but finally devoured those whom they deluded. The Latin Vulgate (Isaiah xxxiv, 14) renders the Hebrew Lilith by Lamia, as a female monster (see Lilith), and among Christians the Lamia was a witch, and Diana herself was a Lamia.. Languages. The question of language is discu ed in each case under the country or race concerned, [The author's view of the origin of languages is also shown by the study of monosyllabic roots— see Subject Index—and the comparisons have been carried by Mr Greg, and other scholars, into the African, American, and Polynesian languages. The African languages, in grammar and vocabulary, are connected with the ancient Egyptian, and so with the Semitic. The Polynesian show marked connection with Malay and Dravidian speech. The American languages are equally allied to the Mongolie. The single origin of all human speech begins therefore to be a scientific probability—Eb. ] Lanka. See Ceylon. The name perhaps is connected with that of the Langalas or palm trees. Lao-tze. See China, and our article in Short Studies (v, pp. 275- 300). As in the eases of Buddha, Christ, or Muhammad, we depend on late accounts for our information as to this “old teacher” (as his name signifies), author of the Tao-teh-king (Book of the Right Way), and founder of the third greatest religion of China. He is said to have belonged to the Barmese tribe of Lé; and was born of poor parents in Tsu (Honan), under the Emperor Ting of the Kau dynasty, the usual date being 605 B.c. Buddhists say that he was taught by Gotama, which seems improbable, though he may have learned from the teaching of the Jain Maha-vira (598 to 528 B.c.). He was well educated and filled important offices in the Record Department. He was first a philosopher, and then—disgusted with the world—became a pe imist. In 539 B.c., he resigned his work, and retired to a monastery, dying (perhaps in 515 B.C.) in an unknown place. He is said to have once met Confucius (in 517 B.c.), who—as a younger man-—listened with respect, but was not convinced by his mystic doctrines. It is difficult to judge what is his, and what the work of later disciples, in his book, which was sacred from an early period in N. and Central China: for it was burned, like all other writings, in 220 B.c., and reappeared under the Han dynasty. Its great exponent was Chuang-tszu (350 to 300 B.c.). The system of the Tao, or “way,” attracted many who were uns at is tied by the dry logic of Confucius, on account of its mysticism. 465