Luppia

LU´PPIAor LU´PIA(ὁ Λουπίας: Lippe), a navigable river in the north-west of Germany, which was well known to the Romans, from its sources to the point where it empties itself into the Rhine. Its sources are in the interior of Germany, not far from those of the Amisia. ( Ems. ) (Vellei. 2.105; Tac. Ann. 1.60, 2.7, Hist. v.22; Pomp. Mela, 3.3.3; Strab. 7. p. 291; Dio Cass..) Strabo (l. c.) had a very incorrect notion of the course of the Lupia, for he describes it as flowing through the country of the Bructeri Minores, and as discharging its waters, like the Amasia, into the ocean: he, moreover, places it about 600 stadia from the Rhine. Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 2.7) mentions a Roman fort built on its banks.

LU´PPIA(Λουππία), a place of considerable importance in the north of Germany, between the rivers Albis and Visurgis, above Mons Melibocus. (Ptol. 2.11.28, 8.6.3.) It is generally identified with the modern town of Lupta.

or Lupia. The modern Lippe; a river in the northwest of Germany, falling into the Rhine at Wesel in Westphalia, and on which the Romans built a fortress of the same name.