Arsinoe the daughter of Meleager, who was then pregnant by king
Philip, and being willing to hide the disgrace of his wife, he
exposed the child in the woods. An eagle preserved the life of the
infant, fed him with her prey, and sheltered him with her wings
against the inclemency of the air. This uncommon preservation was
divulged by Lagus, who adopted the child as his own, and called
him Ptolemy, conjecturing that as his life had been so miraculously
preserved, his days would be spent in grandeur and affluence. This
Ptolemy became king of Egypt after the death of Alexander. According
to other accounts Arsinoe was nearly related to Philip king of
Macedonia, and her marriage with Lagus was not considered as
dishonourable, because he was opulent and powerful. The first of the
Ptolemies is called _Lagus_, to distinguish him from his successors
of the same name. Ptolemy, the first of the Macedonian kings of
Egypt, wished it to be believed that he was the legitimate son
of Lagus, and he preferred the name of _Lagides_ to all other
appellations. It is even said that he established a military order
in Alexandria, which was called Lageion. The surname of Lagides
was transmitted to all his descendants on the Egyptian throne till
the reign of Cleopatra, Antony’s mistress. Plutarch mentions an
anecdote which serves to show how far the legitimacy of Ptolemy
was believed in his age. A pedantic grammarian, says the historian,
once displaying his great knowledge of antiquity in the presence
of Ptolemy, the king suddenly interrupted him with the question
of, “Pray tell me, sir, who was the father of Peleus?” “Tell me,”
replied the grammarian, without hesitation, “tell me, if you
can, O king! who the father of Lagus was.” This reflection on
the meanness of the monarch’s birth did not in the least irritate
his resentment, though the courtiers all glowed with indignation.
Ptolemy praised the humour of the grammarian, and showed his
moderation and the mildness of his temper by taking him under his
patronage. _Pausanias_, _Attica_.――_Justin_, bk. 13.――_Curtius_,
bk. 4.――_Plutarch_, _De Cohibenda Ira_.――_Lucan_, bk. 1, li. 684.
――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 1, li. 196.――――A Rutulian, killed by Pallas
son of Evander. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 381.
=Lagūsa=, an island in the Pamphylian sea.――――Another near Crete.
_Strabo_, bk. 10.――_Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 31.
=Lagȳra=, a city of Taurica Chersonesus.
=Laiădes=, a patronymic of Œdipus son of Laius. _Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 6, fable 18.
=Laias=, a king of Arcadia, who succeeded his father Cypselus, &c.
_Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 5.――――A king of Elis, &c.
=Lais=, a celebrated courtesan, daughter of Timandra the mistress of
Alcibiades, born at Hyccara in Sicily. She was carried away from her
native country into Greece, when Nicias the Athenian general invaded
Sicily. She first began to sell her favours at Corinth, for 10,000
drachmas, and the immense number of princes, noblemen, philosophers,
orators, and plebeians who courted her embraces, show how much
commendation is owed to her personal charms. The expenses which
attended her pleasures gave rise to the proverb of _Non cuivis
homini contingit adire Corinthum_. Even Demosthenes himself visited
Corinth for the sake of Lais, but when he was informed by the
courtesans that admittance to her bed was to be bought at the
enormous sum of about 300_l._ English money, the orator departed, and
observed that he would not buy repentance at so dear a price. The
charms which had attracted Demosthenes to Corinth, had no influence
upon Xenocrates. When Lais saw the philosopher unmoved by her beauty,
she visited his house herself; but there she had no reason to boast
of the licentiousness or easy submission of Xenocrates. Diogenes
the cynic was one of her warmest admirers, and though filthy in
his dress and manners, yet he gained her heart and enjoyed her most
unbounded favours. The sculptor Mycon also solicited the favours of
Lais, but he met with coldness; he, however, attributed the cause
of his ill reception to the whiteness of his hair, and dyed it of
a brown colour, but to no purpose. “Fool that thou art,” said the
courtesan, “to ask what I refused yesterday to thy father.” Lais
ridiculed the austerity of philosophers, and laughed at the weakness
of those who pretend to have gained a superiority over their
passions, by observing that the sages and philosophers of the
age were not above the rest of mankind, for she found them at her
door as often as the rest of the Athenians. The success which her
debaucheries met at Corinth encouraged Lais to pass into Thessaly,
and more particularly to enjoy the company of a favourite youth
called Hippostratus. She was, however, disappointed: the women of
the place, jealous of her charms, and apprehensive of her corrupting
the fidelity of their husbands, assassinated her in the temple of
Venus, about 340 years before the christian era. Some suppose that
there were two persons of this name, a mother and her daughter.
_Cicero_, _Letters to his Friends_, bk. 9, ltr. 26.――_Ovid_,
_Amores_, bk. 1, poem 5.――_Plutarch_, _Alcibiades_.――_Pausanias_,
bk. 2, ch. 2.
=Lāius=, a son of Labdacus, who succeeded to the throne of Thebes,
which his grandfather Nycteus had left to the care of his brother
Lycus, till his grandson came of age. He was driven from his kingdom
by Amphion and Zethus, who were incensed against Lycus for the
indignities which Antiope had suffered. He was afterwards restored,
and married Jocasta the daughter of Creon. An oracle informed him
that he should perish by the hand of his son, and in consequence of
this dreadful intelligence he resolved never to approach his wife. A
day spent in debauch and intoxication made him violate his vow, and
Jocasta brought forth a son. The child as soon as born was given to
a servant, with orders to put him to death. The servant was moved
with compassion, and only exposed him on mount Cithæron, where his
life was preserved by a shepherd. The child, called Œdipus, was
educated in the court of Polybus, and an unfortunate meeting with
his father in a narrow road proved his ruin. Œdipus ordered his
father to make way for him without knowing who he was. Laius refused,
and was instantly murdered by his irritated son. His armour-bearer
or charioteer shared his fate. _See:_ Œdipus. _Sophocles_, _Œdipus_.
――_Hyginus_, fables 9 & 66.――_Diodorus_, bk. 4.――_Apollodorus_,
bk. 3, ch. 5.――_Pausanias_, bk. 9, chs. 5 & 26.――_Plutarch_, _de
Curiositate_.
=Lalăge=, one of Horace’s favourite mistresses. _Horace_, bk. 1,
ode 22, &c.――_Propertius_, bk. 4, poem 7.――――A woman censured for
her cruelty. _Martial_, bk. 2, ltr. 66.
=Lalassis=, a river of Isauria.
=Lamăchus=, a son of Xenophanes, sent into Sicily with Nicias. He
was killed B.C. 414, before Syracuse, where he had displayed much
courage and intrepidity. _Plutarch_, _Alcibiades_.――――A governor of
Heraclea in Pontus, who betrayed his trust to Mithridates, after he
had invited all the inhabitants to a sumptuous feast.
=Lamalmon=, a large mountain of Æthiopia.
=Lambrāni=, a people of Italy near the Lambrus. _Suetonius_, _Cæsar_.
=Lambrus=, a river of Cisalpine Gaul, falling into the Po.
=Lămia=, a town of Thessaly at the bottom of the Sinus Maliacus or
Lamiacus, and north of the river Sperchius, famous for a siege which
it supported after Alexander’s death. _See:_ Lamiacum. _Diodorus_,
bk. 16, &c.――_Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 6.――――A river of Greece
opposite mount Œta.――――A daughter of Neptune, mother of Hierophile,
an ancient Sibyl, by Jupiter. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 12.――――A
famous courtesan, mistress to Demetrius Poliorcetes. _Plutarch_,
_Demetrius_.――_Athenæus_, bk. 13.――_Ælian_, _Varia Historia_, bk. 13,
ch. 9.
=Lamia= and =Auxesia=, two deities of Crete, whose worship was the
same as at Eleusis. The Epidaurians made them two statues of an
olive tree given them by the Athenians, provided they came to offer
a sacrifice to Minerva at Athens. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 30, &c.
=Lamiăcum bellum=, happened after the death of Alexander, when the
Greeks, and particularly the Athenians, incited by their orators,
resolved to free Greece from the garrisons of the Macedonians.
Leosthenes was appointed commander of a numerous force, and marched
against Antipater, who then presided over Macedonia. Antipater
entered Thessaly at the head of 13,000 foot and 600 horse, and was
beaten by the superior force of the Athenians and of their Greek
confederates. Antipater after this blow fled to Lamia, B.C. 323,
where he resolved, with all the courage and sagacity of a careful
general, to maintain a siege with about the 8000 or 9000 men that
had escaped from the field of battle. Leosthenes, unable to take the
city by storm, began to make a regular siege. His operations were
delayed by the frequent sallies of Antipater; and Leosthenes being
killed by the blow of a stone, Antipater made his escape out of
Lamia, and soon after, with the assistance of the army of Craterus
brought from Asia, he gave the Athenians battle near Cranon,
and though only 500 of their men were slain, yet they became so
dispirited, that they sued for peace from the conqueror. Antipater
at last with difficulty consented, provided they raised taxes in the
usual manner, received a Macedonian garrison, defrayed the expenses
of the war, and lastly, delivered into his hands Demosthenes and
Hyperides, the two orators, whose prevailing eloquence had excited
their countrymen against him. These disadvantageous terms were
accepted by the Athenians, yet Demosthenes had time to escape
and poison himself. Hyperides was carried before Antipater, who
ordered his tongue to be cut off, and afterwards put him to death.
_Plutarch_, _Demosthenes_.――_Diodorus_, bk. 17.――_Justin_, bk. 11,
&c.
=Lămiæ=, small islands in the Ægean, opposite Troas. _Pliny_, bk. 5,
ch. 31.――――A celebrated family at Rome, descended from Lamus.
――――Certain monsters of Africa, who had the face and breast of
a woman, and the rest of their body like that of a serpent. They
allured strangers to come to them, that they might devour them;
and though they were not endowed with the faculty of speech, yet
their hissings were pleasing and agreeable. Some believed them to be
witches, or rather evil spirits, who, under the form of a beautiful
woman, enticed young children and devoured them. According to
some, the fable of the Lamiæ is derived from the amours of Jupiter
with a certain beautiful woman called Lamia, whom the jealousy
of Juno rendered deformed, and whose children she destroyed; upon
which Lamia became insane, and so desperate that she ate up all the
children that came in her way. They are also called Lemures. _See:_
Lemures. _Philostratus_, _Life of Apollonius_.――_Horace_, _Art of
Poetry_, li. 340.――_Plutarch_, _de Curiositate_.――_Dion._
=Lămias Ælius=, a governor of Syria under Tiberius. He was honoured
with a public funeral by the senate; and as having been a
respectable and useful citizen, Horace has dedicated his ode 26,
bk. 1, to his praises, as also bk. 3, ode 17.――_Tacitus_, _Annals_,
bk. 6, ch. 27.――――Another during the reign of Domitian, put to death,
&c.
=Lamīrus=, a son of Hercules by Iole.
=Lampĕdo=, a woman of Lacedæmon, who was daughter, wife, sister, and
mother of a king. She lived in the age of Alcibiades. Agrippina the
mother of Claudius could boast the same honours. _Tacitus_, _Annals_,
bk. 12, chs. 22 & 37.――_Plutarch_, _Agesilaus_.――_Plato_, bk. 1,
_Alcibiades_.――_Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 41.
=Lampĕtia=, a daughter of Apollo and Neæra. She, with her sister
Phaetusa, guarded her father’s flocks in Sicily when Ulysses arrived
on the coasts of that island. These flocks were 14 in number, seven
herds of oxen, and seven flocks of sheep, consisting each of 50.
They fed by night as well as by day, and it was deemed unlawful
and sacrilegious to touch them. The companions of Ulysses, impelled
by hunger, paid no regard to their sanctity, or to the threats
and entreaties of their chief; but they carried away and killed
some of the oxen. The watchful keepers complained to their father,
and Jupiter, at the request of Apollo, punished the offence of the
Greeks. The hides of the oxen appeared to walk, and the flesh, which
was roasting by the fire, began to bellow, and nothing was heard but
dreadful noises and loud lowings. The companions of Ulysses embarked
on board their ships, but here the resentment of Jupiter followed
them. A storm arose, and they all perished except Ulysses, who saved
himself on the broken piece of a mast. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 12,
ch. 119.――_Propertius_, bk. 3, poem 12.――――According to _Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 2, li. 349, Lampetia is one of the Heliades,
who was changed into a poplar tree at the death of her brother
Phaeton.
=Lampeto= and =Lampedo=, a queen of the Amazons, who boasted herself
to be the daughter of Mars. She gained many conquests in Asia, where
she founded several cities. She was surprised afterwards by a band
of barbarians, and destroyed with her female attendants. _Justin_,
bk. 2, ch. 4.
=Lampeus= and =Lampia=, a mountain of Arcadia. _Statius_, bk. 8.
=Lampon=, =Lampos=, or =Lampus=, one of the horses of Diomedes,――――of
Hector,――――of Aurora. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 8; _Odyssey_, bk. 23.
――――A son of Laomedon, father of Dolops.――――A soothsayer of Athens
in the age of Socrates. _Plutarch_, _Pericles_.
=Lampōnia= and =Lampōnium=, a city of Troas. _Herodotus_, bk. 5,
ch. 26.――――An island on the coast of Thrace. _Strabo_, bk. 13.
=Lamponius=, an Athenian general, sent by his countrymen to attempt
the conquest of Sicily. _Justin_, bk. 4, ch. 3.
=Lampridius Ælius=, a Latin historian in the fourth century, who wrote
the lives of some of the Roman emperors. His style is inelegant, and
his arrangements injudicious. His life of Commodus, Heliogabalus,
Alexander Severus, &c., is still extant, and to be found in the
works of the _Historiæ Augustæ Scriptores_.
=Lamprus=, a celebrated musician, &c.――_Cornelius Nepos_, _Epaminondas_.
=Lampsăcus= and =Lampsăcum=, now _Lamsaki_, a town of Asia Minor on
the borders of the Propontis, at the north of Abydos. Priapus was
the chief deity of the place, of which he was reckoned by some the
founder. His temple there was the asylum of lewdness and debauchery,
and exhibited scenes of the most unnatural lust, and hence the
epithet _Lampsacius_ is usual to express immodesty and wantonness.
Alexander resolved to destroy the city on account of the vices of
its inhabitants, and more probably for its firm adherence to the
interest of Persia. It was, however, saved from ruin by the artifice
of Anaximenes. _See:_ Anaximenes. It was formerly called Pityusa,
and received the name of Lampsacus, from Lampsace, a daughter of
Mandron, a king of Phrygia, who gave information to some Phoceans
who dwelt there, that the rest of the inhabitants had conspired
against their life. This timely information saved them from
destruction. The city afterwards bore the name of their preserver.
The wine of Lampsacus was famous and therefore a tribute of wine
was granted from the city by Xerxes to maintain the table of
Themistocles. _Mela_, bk. 1, ch. 19.――_Strabo_, bk. 13.――_Pausanias_,
bk. 9, ch. 31.――_Herodotus_, bk. 5, ch. 117.――_Cornelius Nepos_,
_Themistocles_, ch. 10.――_Ovid_, bk. 1, _Tristia_, poem 9, li. 26;
_Fasti_, bk. 8, li. 345.――_Livy_, bk. 33, ch. 38; bk. 35, ch. 42.
――_Martial_, bk. 11, poems 17, 52.
=Lamptera=, a town of Phocæa in Ionia. _Livy_, bk. 37, ch. 31.
=Lamptĕria=, a festival at Pellene, in Achaia, in honour of Bacchus,
who was surnamed Lampter, from λαμπειν, _to shine_, because, during
this solemnity, which was observed in the night, the worshippers
went to the temple of Bacchus, with lighted torches in their hands.
It was also customary to place vessels full of wine in several parts
of every street in the city. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 21.
=Lampus=, a son of Ægyptus.――――A man of Elis.――――A son of Prolaus.
=Lămus=, a king of the Læstrygones, who is supposed by some to have
founded Formiæ in Italy. The family of the Lamiæ at Rome was,
according to the opinion of some, descended from him. _Horace_,
bk. 3, ode 17.――――A son of Hercules and Omphale, who succeeded his
mother on the throne of Lydia. _Ovid_, _Heroides_, poem 9, li. 54.
――――A Latin chief killed by Nisus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 334.
――――A river of Bœotia. _Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 31.――――A Spartan
general hired by Nectanebus king of Egypt. _Diodorus_, bk. 16.――――A
city of Cilicia.――――A town near Formiæ built by the Læstrygones.
=Lămy̆rus=, _buffoon_, a surname of one of the Ptolemies.――――One of the
auxiliaries of Turnus, killed by Nisus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9,
li. 334.
=Lanassa=, a daughter of Cleodæus, who married Pyrrhus the son of
Achilles by whom she had eight children. _Plutarch_, _Pyrrhus_.
――_Justin_, bk. 17, ch. 3.――――A daughter of Agathocles, who married
Pyrrhus, whom she soon after forsook for Demetrius. _Plutarch._
=Lancēa=, a fountain, &c. _Pausanias._
=Lancia=, a town of Lusitania. _Florus_, bk. 4, ch. 12.
=Landi=, a people of Germany conquered by Cæsar.
=Langia=, a river of Peloponnesus, falling into the bay of Corinth.
=Langobardi=, a warlike nation of Germany, along the Sprhe, called
improperly Lombards by some. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 2, ch. 45;
_Germania_, ch. 40.
=Langrobriga=, a town of Lusitania.
=Lanŭvium=, a town of Latium, about 16 miles from Rome on the Appian
road. Juno had there a celebrated temple, which was frequented by
the inhabitants of Italy, and particularly by the Romans, whose
consuls on first entering upon office offered sacrifices to the
goddess. The statue of the goddess was covered with a goat’s skin,
and armed with a buckler and spear, and wore shoes which were turned
upwards in the form of a cone. _Cicero_, _For Lucius Murena_; _de
Natura Deorum_, bk. 1, ch. 29; _For Milo_, ch. 10.――_Livy_, bk. 8,
ch. 14.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 13, li. 364.
=Laobōtas=, or =Lābotas=, a Spartan king, of the family of the Agidæ,
who succeeded his father Echestratus, B.C. 1023. During his reign
war was declared against Argos, by Sparta. He sat on the throne for
37 years, and was succeeded by Doryssus his son. _Pausanias_, bk. 3,
ch. 2.
=Lāŏcoon=, a son of Priam and Hecuba, or, according to others, of
Antenor, or of Capys. As being priest of Apollo, he was commissioned
by the Trojans to offer a bullock to Neptune to render him
propitious. During the sacrifice two enormous serpents issued from
the sea, and attacked Laocoon’s two sons, who stood next to the
altar. The father immediately attempted to defend his sons, but
the serpents, falling upon him, squeezed him in their complicated
wreaths, so that he died in the greatest agonies. This punishment
was inflicted upon him for his temerity in dissuading the Trojans
to bring into the city the fatal wooden horse which the Greeks had
consecrated to Minerva, as also for his impiety in hurling a javelin
against the sides of the horse as it entered within the walls.
Hyginus attributes this to his marriage against the consent of
Apollo, or, according to others, for his polluting the temple by
his commerce with his wife Antiope before the statue of the god.
_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 2, lis. 41 & 201.――_Hyginus_, fable 135.
=Laodămas=, a son of Alcinous king of the Phæacians, who offered to
wrestle with Ulysses, while at his father’s court. Ulysses, mindful
of the hospitality of Alcinous, refused the challenge of Laodamas.
_Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 7, li. 170.――――A son of Eteocles king of
Thebes. _Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 15.
=Lāŏdămīa=, a daughter of Acastus and Astydamia, who married
Protesilaus, the son of Iphiclus king of a part of Thessaly. The
departure of her husband for the Trojan war was the source of grief
to her, but when she heard that he had fallen by the hand of Hector,
her sorrow was increased. To keep alive the memory of her husband
whom she had tenderly loved, she ordered a wooden statue to be
made and regularly placed in her bed. This was seen by one of her
servants, who informed Iphiclus that his daughter’s bed was daily
defiled by an unknown stranger. Iphiclus watched his daughter, and
when he found that the intelligence was false, he ordered the wooden
image to be burned, in hopes of dissipating his daughter’s grief.
He did not succeed. Laodamia threw herself into the flames with the
image and perished. This circumstance has given occasion to fabulous
traditions related by the poets, which mention that Protesilaus was
restored to life, and to Laodamia, for three hours, and that when
he was obliged to return to the infernal regions, he persuaded his
wife to accompany him. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 447.――_Ovid_,
_Heroides_, poem 13.――_Hyginus_, fable 104.――_Propertius_, bk. 1,
poem 19.――――A daughter of Bellerophon, by Achemone the daughter
of king Iobates. She had a son by Jupiter, called Sarpedon. She
dedicated herself to the service of Diana, and hunted with her; but
her haughtiness proved fatal to her, and she perished by the arrows
of the goddess. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bks. 6, 12 & 16.――――A daughter
of Alexander king of Epirus, by Olympia the daughter of Pyrrhus.
She was assassinated in the temple of Diana, where she had fled
for safety during a sedition. Her murderer, called Milo, soon
after turned his dagger against his own breast and killed himself.
_Justin_, bk. 28, ch. 3.
=Lāŏdĭce=, a daughter of Priam and Hecuba, who became enamoured of
Acamas son of Theseus, when he came with Diomedes from the Greeks
to Troy with an embassy to demand the restoration of Helen. She
obtained an interview and the gratification of her desires at the
house of Philebia, the wife of a governor of a small town of Troas,
which the Greek ambassador had visited. She had a son by Acamas,
whom she called Munitus. She afterwards married Helicaon, son
of Antenor and Telephus king of Mysia. Some call her Astyoche.
According to the Greek scholiast of Lycophron, Laodice threw herself
down from the top of a tower and was killed, when Troy was sacked
by the Greeks. _Dictys Cretensis_, bk. 1.――_Pausanias_, bk. 13,
ch. 26.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bks. 3 & 6.――――One of the Oceanides.――――A
daughter of Cinyras, by whom Elatus had some children. _Apollodorus_,
bk. 3, ch. 14.――――A daughter of Agamemnon, called also Electra.
_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 9.――――A sister of Mithridates, who married
Ariarathes king of Cappadocia, and afterwards her own brother
Mithridates. During the secret absence of Mithridates, she
prostituted herself to her servants, in hopes that her husband was
dead; but when she saw her expectations frustrated, she attempted
to poison Mithridates, for which she was put to death.――――A queen
of Cappadocia, put to death by her subjects for poisoning five of
her children.――――A sister and wife of Antiochus II. She put to death
Berenice, whom her husband had married. _See:_ Antiochus II. She
was murdered by order of Ptolemy Evergetes, B.C. 246.――――A daughter
of Demetrius, shamefully put to death by Ammonius, the tyrannical
minister of the vicious Alexander Bala king of Syria.――――A daughter
of Seleucus.――――The mother of Seleucus. Nine months before she
brought forth she dreamt that Apollo had introduced himself into
her bed, and had presented her with a precious stone, on which was
engraved the figure of an anchor, commanding her to deliver it to
her son as soon as born. This dream appeared the more wonderful,
when in the morning she discovered in her bed a ring answering the
same description. Not only the son that she brought forth, called
Seleucus, but also all his successors of the house of the Seleucidæ,
had the mark of an anchor upon their thigh. _Justin._ _Appian_,
_Syrian Wars_ mentions this anchor, though in a different manner.
=Lāŏdĭcēa=, now _Ladik_, a city of Asia, on the borders of Caria,
Phrygia, and Lydia, celebrated for its commerce, and the fine soft
and black wool of its sheep. It was originally called _Diospolis_,
and afterwards _Rhoas_; and received the name of Laodicea, in honour
of Laodice the wife of Antiochus. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 29.――_Strabo_,
bk. 12.――_Mela_, bk. 1, ch. 12.――_Cicero_, bk. 5, _Letters to
Atticus_, ltr. 15, _For Flaccus_.――――Another in Media, destroyed by
an earthquake in the age of Nero.――――Another in Syria, called by way
of distinction Laodicea _Cabiosa_, or _ad Libanum_.――――Another on
the borders of Cœlosyria. _Strabo._
=Lāŏdĭcēne=, a province of Syria, which receives its name from
Laodicea, its capital.
=Laodŏchus=, a son of Antenor, whose form Minerva borrowed to advise
Pandarus to break the treaty which subsisted between the Greeks and
Trojans. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 4.――――An attendant of Antilochus.
――――A son of Priam. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 12.――――A son of Apollo
and Phthia. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 7.
=Laogōnus=, a son of Bias, brother to Dardanus, killed by Achilles at
the siege of Troy. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 20, li. 461.――――A priest
of Jupiter, killed by Merion in the Trojan war. _Homer_, _Iliad_,
bk. 16, li. 604.
=Laogŏras=, a king of the Dryopes, who accustomed his subjects to
become robbers. He plundered the temple of Apollo at Delphi, and was
killed by Hercules. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――_Diodorus_, bk. 4.
=Laogŏre=, a daughter of Cinyras and Metharme daughter of Pygmalion.
She died in Egypt. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 14.