Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Lars.

 Larry Dugan’s Eye-water.Larvæ. 
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Lars.
 
The overking of the ancient Etruscans, like the Welsh “pendragon.” A satrap, or under-king, was a lucmo. Thus the king of Prussia is the German lars, and the king of Bavaria is a lucumo.   1
       
“There be thirty chosen prophets,
The wisest of the land,
Who always by Lars Por’sena,
Both morn and evening stand.”
       
Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome, (Horatius, ix.)
 


 Larry Dugan’s Eye-water.Larvæ. 

 
Loading
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Shakespeare · Bible · Saints · Anatomy · Harvard Classics · Lit. History · Quotations · Poetry
© 1993–2013 Bartleby.com · [Top 150]