LAMEGO  , a

city of northern Portugal, in the district of Vizeu and formerly included in the province of Beira; 6 m. by road S. of the river Douro and 42 M . E. of Oporto . Pop . (1900) ' The text of Gen. iv . 22 is partly corrupt ; and it is possible that the text used by the Septuagint did not contain Cain . x Gen. x . 2, Ezek. xxvii . 13 . ' Genesis, in Haupt's Sacred Books of the Old Testament on iv . 19, cf. also the notes on 20-22, for Lamech's family . The identification of Lamech with Lamga is also suggested by Sayce, Expository Times, vii . 367 .

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Cheyne, " Cainites " in Encyc . Biblica . Notes on the Hebrew Text of Genesis, in loco.9471 . The nearest railway station is Peso da Regoa, on the opposite side of the Douro and on the Barca d'Alva-Oporto railway . Lamego is an ancient and picturesque city, in the midst of a beautiful mountain region . Its principal buildings are the 14th-century Gothic cathedral, Moorish citadel, Roman baths and a church which occupies the site of a mosque, and, though intrinsically commonplace, is celebrated in Portugal as the seat of the legendary cortes of 1143 or 1144 (see PORTUGAL, History) . The principal industries are viticulture and the rearing of swine, which furnish the so-called " Lisbon hams." Lamego was a Moorish frontier fortress of some importance in the 9th and loth centuries . It was captured in 1057 by Ferdinand I. of Castile and Leon .