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 LACTARIUS MOXS. are known only from havinj:, in the Marcomannic war, opposed a body of invading Astings, and, having so done, contracted an alHance with liome. [R. G. L.] LACTA'KIUS ]IOXS {TaXaKTOS opos: Monte S. A ngelo), was the name piven by the Romans to a mountain in the neighbourhood of Stabiae in Cam- pania. It was derived from the circumstance that the mountain abounded in excellent pastures, which were famous for the quality of the milk they pro- duced; on which account the mountain was resorted to by invalids, especially in cases of consumption, for which a milk diet was considered particularly beneficial. (Cassiod. Ep. xi. 10; Galen, de Meih. Med. V. 12.) It was at the foot of this mountain that Narses obtained a great victory over the Goths under Teias in a. d. 5.5.3, in which the Gothic king was slain. (Procop. B. G. iv. 35, 36.) The de- scription of the Jlons Lactarius, and its position ■with regard to Stabiae, leave no doubt that it was a part of the mountain range which branches off from the Apennines near JN'ocerra (Nuceria), and separates the Bay of Naples from that of I'aestum. The Jiighest point of this range, the Monte S. Angela, attains a height of above 5000 feet ; the whole range is calcareous, and presents beautiful forests, as well as abundant pastures. The name of Lettere, still home by a town on the slope of the mountain side, a little above Stabiae, is evidently a relic of the an- cient name. [E. H. B.] LAC TOR A, in Gallia Aquitania, is placed by the Antonine Itin. on the road between Aginnum {Agen) and Chmberrum (Auch), and 15 Gallic leagues from each. The distance and name correspond to the po- sition and name of Lectoure. Several Roman in- scriptions have been discovered with the name Lac- torates, and Civitas Lactorensium ; but the place is not mentioned by any extant wi'iter. [G. L.] LACUS FELICIS, a place in Noricum, on the south of the Danube, 25 miles west of Arelape, and 20 miles east of Laureacum (/f. Ant. pp. 246, 248). According to the Not. Imper., where it is called La- cufelicis, it was the head-quarters of Norican horse archers. It is now generally identified with the town of Niederwallsee, on the Danube. [L.S.] LACYDON. [Massilia.] LADE (Ad5»j), the largest of a group of small islands in the Sinus Latmicus, close by Miletus, and opposite the mouth of the Jlaeander. It was a pro- tection to the harbours of Sliletus, but in Strabo's time it was one of the haunts and strongholds of pirates. Lade is celebrated in history for the naval defeat sustained there by the lonians against the Persians in B. c. 494. f Herod, vi. 8 ; Thucyd. viii. 17, 24 ; Strab. xiv. p. 635 ; Paus. i. 35. § 6; Steph. B. s. V. ; Pliu. V. 37.) That the island was not quite uninhabited, is clear from Strabo, and from the fact of Stephanus B. mentioning the ethnic fonn of the name, AaSatos. [L. S.] LADICUS, a mountain of Gallaecia, the name of which occurs in ancient inscriptions, and is still pre- served in that of the Codos de Ladoco, near Monte- farado on the Sit. (Florez, Esp. S. vol. xv. p. 63 ; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 278.) [P. S.] LADOCEIA (ra AaSo.veia), a place in Arcadia, in the district JIaenalia, and, after the building of Megalopohs, a suburb of that city, was situated upon the road from the latter to Pal'lantium and Tegea. Here a battle was fought between the JIantineians and Tegeatae, b. c. 42.3, and between the Achaeans and Cleomenes, b. c. 226. Thucydides calls it Laodicium (Aao5i'(cioi') in Oresthis. (Paus. viii. 44. LAEDERATA. 115 § 1 ; Thuc. iv. 134 ; Pol. ii. 51, 55.) [Orestha- SIUM.] LADON (AaSwc). 1 . A river of Elis, flowing into the Peneius. [Eus, p. 817, a.] 2. A river of Arcadia, flowing into the Alpheius. [Alpheius.] LAEAEI (Aoia?oi), a Paeonian tribe in Mace- donia, included within the dominion of Sitalces, probably situated to the E. of the Strymon. (Thuc. ii. 96.). [E. B. J.] LAEAETA'NI or LEETA'NI (Aaiana-^oi, Ptol. ii. 6. §§ 18, 74; AsrjTacoi, Strab. iii. p. 159), a people on the N. part of the E. coast of Hispania Tarraconensis, above the Cosetani. Strabo merely speaks vaguely of the sea coast between the Ebro and the Pyrenees as belonging to " the Leetani and the Lartolaeetae, and other such tribes" (t&jj' t6 AiT)Tavwv Kal AaproXanjTwv Koi &K<iii/ roiovToiv), as far as Emporium, while Ptolemy places them about Barcino (^Barcelona') and the river Rubri- catus {Lluhregaf) ; whence it apjiears that they extended from below the Rubricatus on the SV. up to the borders of the Indigetes, upon the bay of Emporiae, on the NE. They are undoubtedly the same people as the Laletani of Pliny (iii. 3. s. 4; comp. Inscr. ap. Gruter. p. cdxsx.), who speaks of their country (Laletania) as producing good wine in abundance. (Plin. xiv. 6. s. 8 ; comp. Martial, i. 27, 50, vii. 52 ; Sil. Ital. iii. 369, xv. 177.) Strabo describes it as a fertile country, welt furnished with harbours. Besides their capital Barcino (Bar- celona), Ihey had the following towns : (i.) On the sea coast, from SW. to KE. : Baetl'LO (Bairou- Xdif, Ptol. ii. 6. § 19 : Badelona ; Muratori, p. 1033, no. 3 ; Florez, Esp. S. vol. xxiv. p. 56, vol. xsix. p. 31 ; Marca, Hisp. ii. 15, p. 159), with a small river of the same name (Besos : Jlela, ii. 6) ; Iluro or Eluro, a city of the conventus of Tarraco, with the civitas Romana (Mela, ii. 6 ; Plin. iii. 3. s. 4 ; AiXovpwv, Ptol. ii. 6. § 19, where the vulgar reading is AiKovpwv ; prob. Mataro, Marca, Hisp. ii. 15, p. 159 ; Florez, Esp. S. vol. xxix. p. 34) ; Blanda (BAarSo, Ptol. I. c: Blancs'), on a height, NE. of the mouth of the little river Lakxuji {Tordera : Phn. iii. 3. s. 4) : between Baetulo and Iluro Ptolemy places the LuxARiUJi Pk (Aourd- piov &Kpoy ; probably the headland marked by the To7-re de Mongat). (2.) On the high road from Tarraco to Narbo Martins in Gaul (Itin. Ant. p. 398) : Fixes, 20 M. P. W. of Barcino (near Martorell, on the right bank of the Llobi-egat), marking doubtless the borders of the Laeeiani and the Cosetani ; then Barcino ; next Praetorium, 17 M. P. (near Ilostalrich or La lioca, where are great ruins ; Marca, Bisp. ii. 20) ; Seterkae or Secerrae, 15 M. P. (prob. S. Fere de Sercada or SunSeloni) ; Aquae Voconiae, 15 M. P. (^Caldas de Malavella). (3.) Other inland towns : Rlbri- cata (Ptol.); Egara, a municipium, whose site is unknown (Inscr. ap. Muratori, p. 1106, no. 7, p. 1107, no. 1); Aquae Caliuae, a civitas sti- pendiaria, in the conventus of Tarraco (Plin. iii. 3. s. 4, Aquicaldenses: Caldas de Mombiiy, N. of Bar- celona, Marca, Hisp. ii. 16, p. 167; Florez, Esp. S. vol. xxix. p. 37; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. pp. 423, 424.) [P. S.1 LAEDERATA (AeSepctra or AiTepard, Procop. de Aed. iv. 6), a toNTO in the north of Moesia, on the Danube, and a few miles east of Viminacium. In trhe Notitia its name is Laedenata; it must have been near the modem Rama. [L. S.] I 2