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 LACIIISIL tanin quae suhjecta Pyrenncis viontibus est, Liv.). Their " pathless forests " (dcvia et silvestris (/ens, Liv.) lay S. of the Cekretani, W. of the Ixdi- OETES, and N. of the Laletani. (It is hnpossible to avoid the suspicion that these names are identical, especially as we have the intennediate form Lae- AETANt, and that Lacctania is only the N. part of Laletania. Moreover, the name is confounded with the Jacetani in the ]ISS. of Caes. B. C. i. 60.) Only one town is mentioned as belonging to them, and th.it without a name, but simply as having been taken by M. Cato. (Plut. Cat. Maj. 11 ; Liv. xxi. 23, 26, 60, et seq., xxviii. 24, 26, et seq., xxxiii. 34, ssxiv. 20 ; Dion Cass. xlv. 10 ; Martial, i. 49. 22.) [P. S.] LACHISH (Aoxi'y, LXX.; Aax«'^, Aaxeiffa, Joseph.), a city to the south of the tribe of Judali {^Josh. XV. 39), the capital of one of the petty kings or sheikhs of the Canaanites (x. 3). It was taken and destroyed by Joshua (iv. 31 — 33), and is joined with Adoraim and Azekah (2 Chron. xi. 9) as one of the cities built, or rather fortified, by Rehoboam. It was besieged by Sennacherib on his invasion of Judaea, b. c. 713. (2 Kings, xviii. 14, 17, xix. 8.) It is placed by Eusebius and St. Jerome (^Onomast. s. f.) seven miles south of Eleutheropolis, in Daroma or " the valley." {.Josh. xv. 39.) But for this it might have been identified with Um Lukis, on the left of the road between Gaza and Hebron, about five hours from the former, where is an ancient site " now covered confusedly with heaps of small round stones, among which are seen two or three fragments of marble columns." (Robinson, Bibl. Res. vol. ii. ]). 388.) The objections to the identification are not, valent to metropolis, would seem to mark it as a place of importance; and there is no other vestige of a town in those parts that can be referred to Lachish. It is considerably south of west from Beit Jehrin (Eleutheropolis), which is near enough to satisfy the ilescription of Eusebius, who is not remarkable for jirecise accuracy in his bearings, nor, indeed, in his distances, except in the parts with which he was lamiliar, and on the more frecjuented thoroughfares. No argument can be drawn from its juxtaposition with Adoraim and Azekah, in 2 Chron. xi. 9, as it might be near enough to group with them in a list of names which, it is evident, does not pretend to geographical precision. [G. W.] LACIACA or LACIACUM (in the Peut. Table it is called Laciacis), a town in the north-west of Noricum {It. Ant. pp. 235, 258). The name seems to be connected with " lacus," and thus to point to the lake district in upper Austria; hence some have identified the place with Seeicalchen, or St. Georgen on the Attersee. But Muchar {Noricum, p. 267) is probably right in identifying it with Franken- viarkt. [L. S.] LA'CIBI (Plin. iii. 1. s. 3 ; AaKi€is, Ptol. ii. 4. § 11), a tributary town of Hispania Baetica, which I'liny assigns to the conventus of Gades, while Pto- lemy places it among the cities of the Turduli, in in the neighbourhood of Hispalis. [P. S.] LACIBU'RGIUM {AaKi§ovpyiov), aGerman town on the south coast of the Baltic, between the rivers Chalusus, and Suevus or Suebus. It is mentioned only by Ptolemy (ii. 11. § 27). and it is certain that its site must be looked for to the west of Wmtiemiinde, but the precise spot cannot be ascertained, whence some have identified it with Wismar, others with Ratzehurg, and others again v/iihLauenburg. [L.S.] LACIPPO. 107 LACIDAE. [Attica, p. 326, a.] LACI'NIA. [Iapydia.] LACl'NIUM (rb AaKlvLOv aKpov : Ca^yo delle Colonne), a promontory on the E. coast of the Bruttian peninsula, about 6 miles S. of Crotona. It formed the southern limit of the gulf of Ta- rentum, as the lapygian promontory did the northern one : the distance between the two is stated by Strabo, on the authority of Polybius, at 700 stadia, while Pliny apparently (for the passage in its present state is obviously corrupt) reckons it at 75 Roman miles, or 600 stadia ; both of which estimates are a fair approximation to the truth, the real interval being 65 gcog. miles, or 650 stadia. (Strab. vi. p. 261 ; Plin. iii. 11. s. 15; MeL ii. 4. § 8.) The Lacinian promontory is a bold and rocky headland, forming the termination of one of the olfshoots or branches of the great range of the Apennines (Lucan. ii. 434 ; Plin. iii. 5. s. 6) : it was crowned in ancient times by the celebrated temple of the Lacinian .Juno, the ruins of which, surviving through the middle ages, have given to the promontory its modern appellation of Capo delle Colonne. It is also known by that of CajM Nau, a name evidently derived from the Greek NoJs, a temple ; and which seems to date from an early period, as the promontory is already designated in the Maritime Itinerary (p. 490) by the name of Naus. That Itinerary reckons it 100 stadia from thence to Crotona : Strabo gives the same distance as 150 stadia ; but both are greatly overrated. Livy correctly says that the temple (which stood at the extreme point of the promontory) was only about 6 miles from the city. (Liv. xxiv. 3.) For the history and description of this famous temple, see Ckotona. Pliny tells us (iii. 10. s. 15) th.at opposite to the Lacinian promontoiy, at a distance of 10 miles from the land, was an island called Dioscoron (the island of the Dioscuri), and another called the island of Calypso, supposed to be the Ogygia of Homer. Scylax also mentions the island of Calypso immediately after the Lacinian promontory (§ 13, p. 5). But there is at the present day no island at all that will answer to either of those mentioned by Pliny : there is, in fact, no islet, however small, oif the Lacinian cape, and hence modern writers have been reduced to seek for the abode of Calypso in a small and barren rock, close to the shore, near Capo Rizzuto, about 12 miles S. of Lacinium. Swinburne, who visited it, remarks how little it corresponded with the idea of the Homeric Ogygia : but it is difficult to believe that so trifling a rock (which is not even marked on Zannoni's elaborate map) could have been that meant by Scylax and Pliny.* The statement of the latter concerning the island which he calls Dioscoron is still more precise, and still more difficult to account for. On the other hand, he adds the names of three others, Tiris, Eranusa, and Meloessa, which he introduces somewhat vaguely, as if he were himself not clear of their position. Their names were probably taken from some poet now lost to us. [E. H. B.] LACIPEA. [Ll-sitania.] LACIPPO (AaKiVTrw, Ptol. ii. 4. § 11 ; Lacipo, coin ap. Sestini, Med. Jsp. p. 57 ; Mionnet, Suppl. to the island of Calypso, and the degree of pro- bability of their claims, will be discussed under the article Ogygia.
 * )erhaps, so great as is repi'esented : the title Um, equi-
 * The different positions that have been assigned