LEONINE VERSES

Latin verses according to the rules of ancient prosody, but rhymed. The name is said in be derived from one of the popes Leo, or, more probably, from a monk called Leon in us. The end rhymes to the middle,i.e., to the two last syllables before the cresura, in hex a meters; in pentameters, the two divisions arc rhymed The following distich may serve as an example: Daemon tanguebat, monaclms tunc ewe volet at: Ast uhi couvaluit, in a us it ut aute fuit. LEPADITES, Lepadita. (Gr. Xtwa?, a shellfish.) Goose barnacles; an order of Cirripeds, comprehending those which have a long, flexible, contractile stem, fixed by its base to some solid body, and supporting at its extremity the princicoriaceouspal parts of case.the animal, enclosed by a multiva'lve shell, or [s. 672]