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 106 LABICUM. occupied by the village of La Colonna ; a height a little in advance of the Tusculan hills, and com- manding the adjoining portion of the plain. It is about a mile from the 15th milestone on the Eoman road, where, as we have seen, the suburb Ad Qain- tanas afterwards grew up, and is certainly the only position that accords with Strabo's description. No ruins are visible ; but the site is one well calculated for an ancient city, of small magnitude, and the discovery of the inscriptions already noticed in its immediate neighbourhood may be considered con- clusive of the point. The modem village of La Colonna dates only from the 11th century. (Holsten. Not. ad Cliw. p. 194 ; Fabrett. de Aquaeduct. p. 182 ; Nibby, Blntorni di Roma, vol. ii. pp. 157 — 164.) Ficoroni, in his elaborate work (^Memorie (Mia Prima e Seconda Citta di Lahico, 4to. Roma, 1745), has laboured to prove, but certainly without success, that Labicum was situated on the CoUe dei Quadri, near Lugnano, about 5 miles beyond La Colonna. The remains there discovered and de- .scribed by him render it probable that L/iignano was an ancient site, probably that of Bola [Bola] ; but the distance from Rome excludes the supposition that it was that of Labicum. The Via Labicana, which issued from the Porta Esquilina at Rome together with the Via Prae- iiestina, but separated from the latter immediately afterwards, held a course nearly parallel with it as far as the station Ad Quintanas ; from whence it turned round the foot of the Alban hills, and fell into the Via Latina at the station Ad Pictas, where the latter road had just descended from Mt. Algidas. (Strab. V. p. 237 ; Itin. Ant. pp. 304, 305.) It is strange that the Itineraiy gives the name of La- vicana to the continuation of the road after their junction, though the Via Latina was so much the more important of the two. The course of the ancient Via Labicana may be readily traced from the gates of Rome by the Torre Pignatara, Cento Celle, Torre Niwva, and the Osteria di Finocchio to the Osteria delta Colonna, at the foot of the hill of that name. This Osteria is 16 miles from Rome and a mile beyond the ancient station Ad Qtiintanas. From thence the road proceeded to San Cesario, and soon after, quitting the line of the modern road to Valmontone, struck off direct to join the Via La- tina : but the exact site of the station Ad Pictas has not been determined. (Westphal, Rom. Kani- 23agne, pp. 78 — 80; Cell's Topogr. of Rome, p. 279.) On the left of the Via Labicana, about thirteen miles and a half from Rome, is a small crater-formed lake, which has often been considered as the ancient Lacus Regillus : but the similar basin of the Lago di Cornufelle, near Tusculum, appears to have a better clahn to that celebrated name. [Reglllus Lacus.] The course of the Via Labicana in the immediate neighbourhood of Rome was bordered, like the other highways that issued from the city, with numerous sepulchres, many of them on a large scale, and of massive construction. Of these, the one now known as the Torre Pignatara, about three miles from the Porta Maggiore, is represented by very ancient tradition, but with no other authority, as the mau- soleum of Helena, the mother of Constantino the Great. (Nibby, vol. iii. p. 243.) We leani, also, that the family tomb of the emperor Didius Julianus was situated on the same road, at the distance of 5 miles from Rome. (Spartian. Did. Jul. 8.) LACETANL LABISCO. [Lavisco.] LABISCUM. [Lavisco.] LABO'TAS (AaScuras), a small river of the plain of Antioch. (Strab. xvi. p. 751.) It nms from the north, parallel to the Arceuthus, and, mixing with its waters and those of the Oenoparas coming from the east, in a small lake, they flow off in one stream and join the Orontes a little above Antioch. It is the western of the two rivers shown in map. Vol. I. p. 115, and Pagrae (^Bagras) is situated on its western bank near its mouth. [G. W.] LABRANDA (to Ad§povSo or haSpauvda), a village in the west of Caria, about 60 stadia from the town of Mylasa, to which the village belonged, and with which it was connected by a road called the sacred. Labranda was situated in the mountains, and was celebrated for its sanctuary of Zeus Stratios, to which processions went along the sacred road from Mylasa. Herodotus describes (v. 119) the sanctuary as an extensive grove of plane trees, within which a body of Carians, in their war against the Persians, retreated for safety. Strabo (siv. p. 659) speaks of an ancient temple with a ^uavov of Zeus Stratios, who was also surnamed " Labrandenus " or " Labrandeus." Aelian (JI. A. xii. 30), who states that the temple of Labranda was 70 stadia from Mylasa, relates that a spring of clear water, within the sanctuary, contained fishes, with golden neck- laces and rings. Chandler (^Antiq. of Ionia, pt. 1. c. 4, and Asia Minor, c. 58) was the first who stated his belief, that the ruins at lakli, south of Kizeljik, consisting of a theatre and a ruined temple of the Ionian order, of which 16 columns, with the entablattire, were then still standing, were those of ancient Labranda and of the temple of Zeus Stratios. But Choiseul Gouffier, Barbid du Bocage, and Leake {Asia Minor, p. 232), agree in thinking that these ruins belong to Euromus rather than Labranda. Their view is supported by the fact that the ruins of the temple have nothing very ancient about them, but rather show that they belong to a structure of the Roman period. The remains of Labranda must be looked for in the hills to the north-east of Mylasa. Sir C. Fellows (^Journal, p. 261), apparently not knowing what had been done by his predecessors, unhesitatingly speaks of the ruins at lakli as those of Labranda, and gives an engraving of the remains of the temple under the name of the " Temple at Labranda." [L. S.] LABRONIS PORTUS. [Libukxum.] LABUS or LABU'TAS (Aagos or AagovTas), a mountain range in the N. of Parthia, mentioneil by Polybius (x. 29). It seems to have a part of the greater range of M. Coronus, and is probably represented now by the Sohad-Koh, a part of the Elhurz mountains. [V.] LACANI'TIS (Aa/fovrTis), the name of a district in Cilicia Proper, above Tarsus, between the rivers Cydnus and Sarus, and containing the town of Irenopolis. (Ptol. v. 8. § 6.) [L. S.] LACCU'RIS. [Oretani.] LACEA. [LusiTANiA.] LACEDAEMON {AaKiUifiwv, Steph. B. s. v. ; Eustath. ad. II. ii. 582), a town in the interior of Cvprus. (Engel, Kypros, vol. i. p. 158.) [E. B. J.] "LACEDAEMON, LACEDAEMO'NIL [Laco- NIA.] LACEREIA. [DoTius Campus.] LACETA'NI (AaKeTavol), one of the small peoples of Hispania Tarraconensis, who occupied the valleys at the S. foot of the Pyrenees. {Lace-