Jupiter
Known to the Greeks as Zeus.
The chief of all the gods of the ancients. According to Varro there were three hundred persons of that name. To him of Crete, who passed for the son of Saturn and Ops, the actions of the rest have been attributed. Jupiter was educated in a cave on Mount Ida, in Crete, and fed with the milk of the goat Amalthaea. While he was very young he made war on the Titans, whom he conquered. The beginning of his reign in the supernal regions was interrupted by the rebellion of the giants who were sons of the Earth, and who were desirous of revenging the death of the Titans, but by the aid of Hercules, Jupiter overpowered them. Jupiter married Metis, Themis, Ceres, Euronyme, Mnemosyne, Latona, and Juno. His worship was universal: he was the Ammon of the Africans, the Belus of Babylon, and the Osiris of Egypt.
Jura or Jurassus Mons. A range of mountains running north of the lake Lemanus as far as Augusta Rauracorum (August, near Basle), on the Rhine, forming the boundary between the Sequani and Helvetii.
Juvenalis, D. Junius. A poet born at Aquinum in Italy. He came to Rome at an early age, where he applied himself to the writing of satires, some of which are extant. He died in the reign of Trajan A. D. 128. His writings are distinguished by a lively style, but abound with ill humor.
Laberius, J. Decimus. A Roman knight famous for his skill in writing pantomimes. Caesar made him appear on the stage in one of his plays, which he resented by throwing out aspersions on Caesar during the performance, and by warning the audience againt tyranny.
Labienus, T. Tribune of the Plebs, B. C. 63, was a friend and partisan of Caesar, and his chief legatus in his wars against the Gauls; but on the breaking out of the civil war in B. c. 49, he went over to Pompey.