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 116 LAELIA. LAE'LIA (AaiXia, Ttol. ii. 4. § 12 : Aracnea or El Berrocal), an inland city of the Tnrdetani, in the W. of Hispania Baetica, not far from Itahca, is one of the Spanish cities of which we have several coins, belonging to the period of its independence, as well as to the early Roman empire. Their types are, an armed horseman, at full speed, with ears of com, boughs, and palm-trees. (Florez, Esp. S. voL xii. pp. 256— 258 ; Med. vol ii. p. 489, vol. iiL p. 92 ; Mionnet, vol. i. p. 19, Suppl. vol. i. p. 35 ; Sestini, Med. pp. 20, 65 ; Num. Goth. ; Eckhel, vol. i. p. 25 ; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 373.) [P. S.] LAEPA {Lepe, near Ayamonte), a city of the Tnrdetani, on the coast of Baetica, a little E. of the mouth of the Anas (^Guadalquivir : Mela, iii. 1 ; comp. Plin. iii. 1. s. 3, where, however, the reading is doubtful ; Bell. Alex. 57, where Laepam should probably be substituted for the MS. readings of Leptbn or LejHum ; Florez, Esp. S. vol. x. p. 45, vol. xii. pp. 56, 57 ; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 339. This place must not be confounded with Ptolemy's Laepa, which is only a various reading for Ilipa). [P.S.] LAERON FL. [Gallaecia.] LAESTRY'GONES {XaiarpvySves), a fabulous people of giants, who are mentioned by Homer in the Odyssey (x. 80 — 132), and described as governed by a king named Lamus. They were a pastoral people, but had a city (Scttii) which Homer calls AaiaTpvyovir), with a port, and a fountain named Ar- tacia. It may well be doubted whether Homer meant to assign any definite locality to this people, any more than to the Cyclopes; but later Greek writers did not fail to fix the place of their abode, though opinions were much divided on the subject. The general tradition, as we learn from Thucydides (vi. 2), placed them in Sicily, though that historian wisely declares his total ignorance of everything concerning them. Other writers were less cautious; some fixed their abodes in the W. or NW. part of the island, in the country subsequently occupied by the Elymi (Lycophr. Alex. 956); but the more pre- valent opinion, at least in later times, seems to have been that they dwelt in the neighbourhood of Leon- tini, whence the name of Laestrygonii Campi was given to the fertile plain in the neighbourhood of that city. (Strab. i. p. 20; Plin. iii. 8. s. 14; Tzetz. ad Lycophr. 662, 956; Sil. Ital. xiv. 126.) A wholly ditierent tradition, with the origin of which we are unacquainted, but which is vpry generally adopted by Roman writers, represented Formiae on the coast of Italy as tlie abode of the Laestrygones, and the city of their king Lamus. The noble family of the Lamiae, in the days of Augustus, even pretended to derive their descent from the mythical king of the Laestrygones. (Cic. ad Att. ii. 13; Hor. Cam. iii. 17: Plin. iii. 5. s. 9; Sil. Ital. vii. 410.) [E.H.B.] LAEVI or LAI (Aaoi), a tribe of Cisalpine Gauls, who dwelt near the sources of the river Padus. This is the statement of Polybius (ii. 17), who associates them with the Libicii (Ae^ewioi), and says that the two tribes occupied the part of the plains of Cis- alpine Gaul nearest to the sources of the Padus, and next to them came the Insubres. He distinctly reckons them among the Gaulish tribes who had crossed the Alps and settled in the plains of Northern Italy: on the other hand, both Livy and Pliny call them Ligurians. (Liv. v. 35; PUn. iii. 17. s. 21.) The reading in the passage of Livy is, indeed, very uncertain ; but he would appear to agree with Pliny in placing them in the neighbourhood of Ticinum. LAGUSA. Pliny even ascribes the foundation of that city to the Laevi, in conjunction with the JIarici, a name otherwise wholly unknown, but apparently al.so a Ligurian tribe. There can be no doubt that in this part of Italy tribes of Gaulish and Ligurian origin were veiy much intermixed, and probably the latter were in many cases confounded with the Gauls. [LiGURiA.] LAGANIA {Aayavla), a village of the Tecto- sagae in Galatia, 24 miles to the east of Juliopolis. It is not mentioned by any of the classical writer.*;, but it must afterwards have increased in importance, for during the Christian period, it was the see of a bishop, and took the name of Anastasiopolis (Concil. Chalc. p. 662, and p. 95, where the name is mis- spelt Aaaavia ; Itin. Ant. p. 142, where the name is Laganeos ; It. Ilkros. p. 574, where we read Agannia). There is little doubt that the Latania in Ptolemy (v. 1. § 14) and the Rheganagalia of Hierocles (p. 697) are the same as Lagania (comp. Theod. Syc. c. 2). Kiepert, in his map of Asia Minor, identifies it with Beg Basar. [L. S.] LAGA'RIA (Aayapia: Eth. Aayapiravds, Laga- rinus), a small town of Lucania, situated between Thurii and the river Sybaris; which, according to the commonly received legend, was founded by a colony of Phocians under the command of Epeins, the architect of the wooden horse. (Strab. vi. p. 263 ; Lycophr. Alex. 930 ; Tzetz. ad loc.) Strabo, the only geographical writer who mentions it, calls it only a fortress (jppovpiov'), and it was probably never a place of any importance; though deriving some celebrity in after times from the excellence of its wine, which was esteemed one of the best in Italy. (Strab. I. c; Plin. xiv. 6. s. 8.) The statement of Strabo, above quoted, is the only clue to its po.sition, which cannot therefore be determined with any certainty. Cluverius placed it at Nocara, about 10 miles from the sea, and this conjecture (for it is nothing more) has been adopted by Romanelli. The wines of this neighbourhood are said still to preserve their ancient reputation. (Cluver. Ital. p. 1272 • Romanelli, vol. i. p. 248.) [E. H. B.] LAGECUM. [Legeolium.] LAGINA (ja Adyiva), a place in the territory of Stratoniceia, in Caria, contained a most splendid temple of Hecate, at which every year great festivals were celebrated. (Strab. xiv. p. 660.) Tacitus (Ann. iii. 62), when speaking of the worship of Trivia among the Stratoniceuins, evidently means Hecate. The name of Lagina is still preserved in the village of Lakena, not far from the sources of the Tshina. Laginia, mentioned by Steph. B. as a TToXlx^iov Kapias, seems to be the same as the Lagina of Strabo. [L. S.] LAGNI (Aayvi), a town of the Arevacae, in Hispania Tarraconensis, mentioned only by Diodorus Siculus (Excerpt, vol. ii. p. 596). [P- S.] LAGOS, a town in Phrygia, on the north-east of Mandropolis. (Liv. xxxviii. 15.) The town is men- tioned only by Li^•y in his account of the progress of the Roman consul Cn. IHanlius in Asia Minor, when Lagos was found deserted by its inhabitants, but well provided with stores of every description, whence we may infer that it was a town of some conse- quence. [L. S.] LAGU'SA (Aayov(Ta, Aayovao-a), an island in the Aegaean sea, the name of which occurs in Strabo between those of Sicinus and Pholegandrus. Hence it is probably the same as Kardiotissa, a rocky islet between the two latter islands. But Kiepert,