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 LAGUSA. in liis map, identifies it with Polyaegus. (Strab. x. p. 484 ; Stepli. B. s. v. ; Eustath. ad II. ii. 625, p. 306.) LAGU'SA (Act-youcra), one of a group of small islands in the bay of Telmissus in Lycia, 5 stadia from Telmissus, and 80 from Cissidae. (Plin. v. 35 ; Steph. B. s. r. ; Stadiasm. Mar. Mag. § 226, foil.) This island is generally CDnsidered to be the same as the modem Panuffia di Cordiallssa. [L. S.] LAGUSSAE, a group of small islands off the coast of Troy, to the north of Tenedos (Plin. v. 38 ; comp. Eustath. ad Horn. II. ii. p. 306). Their mo- dern name is Taoclian Adassi. [L. S.] LAISH, the more ancient name of Dan. [Dax.] LALASIS (AaAoffiy, Ptol. v. 8. § 6, where some M.SS. have AaAacris), a district in Cilicia, extending along Mount Taurus, above the district called Se- lentis. Pliny (v. 23) also mentions a town Lalasis in Isauria, and this town accordingly seems to have been the capital of the district Lalasis, which may have extended to the north of Mount Taurus. It is probable, moreover, that the Isaurian town of La- Usanda, mentioned by Stephanus B., and which, he says, was in his day called Dalisanda, is the same as Lalasis ; and if so, it is identical with the Dalisanda of Hierocles (p. 710). Basilius of Se- leucia informs us that the town stood on a lofty hi-'ight, but was well pro'ided with water, and not destitute of other advantages. (AVessehng, adHierocl. I. c). From all these circumstances, we might be inclined to consider the reading AaAaais in Ptolemy the correct one, were it not tbat the coins of the place all bear the inscription AoXacro-faiy. (Sestini, p. 96.) [L. S.] LALENESIS (AaAij/'ecn's or AaSoLvepis, Ptol. v. 7. § 6), a small town in the district of Melitene in Armenia Minor, on the east of Zoropassus. Its site is unknown, and no ancient writer besides Ptolemy mentions it. [L. S.] LALETA'XI. [Laeetaui.] LAMA. [Vettones.] LAMASBA (Itin. Ant. pp. 35, ter, 40: La- viasbaa, Tab. Pent.), a city of the Massylii, in the interior of Numidia, near the confines of Mauretania, 62 M. P. from SrriFi, and 62 from Tajiugadi. Lapie and D'Avezac identify it with Ain-nazel,nt the N. foot of the mountains of the Welled-Abd-en- Nour ; but its site seems to agree better with the considerable ruins at Bailna, on the S. of those mountains, and W. of the M. Aurasius {Jehd- A nress : Shaw, Travels, ^-c. p. 52 ; Pellissier, Exploration Scientijique de TAlgerie, vol. vi. p. 389). [P. S.] LAMBER or LAMBRUS, a river of Northern Italy, in Gallia Transpadana, noticed by Pliny among the affluents of the Padus which join that river on its left or northern bank. (Plin. iii. 19. s. 23.) It is still called the Lambro, and rises in a small lake called the Lago di Pusiano (the Eupilis Lacus of Pliny), from whence it flows within 3 miles of Milan, and enters the Po about midway between the Ticino and the Adda. Sidonius Apollinaris con- trasts its stagnant and weedy stream (jdvosum Lam- hrnm') with the blue waters of the Addua. (^Ep. i. 5.) The Tabula as well as the Geographer of Ravenna give a town of the name of Lambrum, of which no trace is found elsewhere. It is probably a corruption of a station, Ad Lambiiim, at the pass- age of the river of that name, though the Tabula erroneously transfers it to the S. side of the Padus. {Tab. Pent. ; Geogr. Rav. iv. 30.) [E. II. B.] LAMIA. 117 LAMBE'SE {Itin, Ant. pp. 32, 33, 34, 40 : Tab. Pent.; Adf/.§a7(Ta, Ptol. iv. 3. §29; Lajibae,sa, Inscr. ; Lambaese, Augustin. adv. Donat. vi. 13; Lambesitana Colonia, Cyprian. Epist. 55 : Lemba or Tezzout. large Ru.), one of the most important cities in the interior of Numidia, belonging to the Massylii. It lay near the confines of Mauretania, at the W. foot of M. Aurasius {Jebel Auress), 102 M. P. from SiTiFi, 118 from Theveste, and 84 from CiRTA. It was the station of an entire legion, the Legio III. Augusta {Xiyi'iuiv rpirri aiSaari}, Ptol. I. c. ; and Inscr.). Its importance is attested by its magnificent ruins, among which are seen the re- mains of an amphitheatre, a temple of Aesculapius, a triumphal arch, and other buildings, enclosed by a wall, in the circuit of which 40 gates have been traced, 15 of them still in a good state of pre- servation. The silence of Procopius respecting such a city seems to imply that it had been destroyed before the age of Justinian. (Shaw, Travels, ■p. 57 ; Bruce; Peysonncl; FelUssier, Exploration Scientijiqtie de I'A Igerie, vol. vi. pp. 388, 389.) [P. S.] LAMBRI'ACA or LAMBKl'CA, a town of the Callaici Lucenses in Gallaecia, near the confluence of the rivers Laeron and Ulla, not far from El- Padron. (Mela, iii. 1. § 8j Ukert, voh ii. pt. 1. p. 439.) [P. S.] LAMETI'NI (A^^uTirTfoi), a city of Bruttium, mentioned only by Stephanus of Byzantium {s. v.), on the authority of Hecataeus, who added that there was a river also of the name of Lametus (Aa|U7jTos). We find this again alluded to by Lycophron. {Alex. 1085.) There can be no doubt that this is the stream still called Lamato, which flows into the gulf of Sta. Enfemia : and this is confirmed by the authority of Aristotle, who gives to that gulf, other- wise known as the Sinus Terinaeus or Hip- poniates, the name of the Lajietine Gulf (<5 AayU7jT?j'oy koXttos, Arist. Pol. vii. 10). Hence there can be little doubt that the city of Lametini also was situated on the shores of the same bay, though Stephanus vaguely calls it " near Crotona." (Steph. B. I. c.) No other writer mentions the name (which is evidently an ethnic form like Leontini), and it is probable that the town was destroyed or sunk into a dependent condition at an early period. An inscription, which records it as an existing mu- nicipal town in the time of Trajan, is almost cer- tainly spurious. (Mommsen, Inscr. Regn. Neap. App. No. 936.) It is generally supposed to have been situated either at or near the modem village of Sta. Enfemia, but this is mere conjecture. [E.H.B.] LA'illA (Aajufa : Eth. Aaixtevs : Zliuni), a town of the Malienses, though afterwards separated from them, situated in the district Phthiotis in Thessaly. Strabo describes Lamia as situated .above the plain which lies at the foot of the Blaliac gulf, at the distance of 30 stadia from the Spercheius, and 50 stadia from the sea (is. pp. 433, 435). Livy says that it was placed on a height distant seven miles from Heracleia, of which it com- manded the prospect (xxxvi. 25), and on the route which led from Thermopylae through the passes of Phthiotis to Thaumaci (xxxii. 4). Strabo further relates that it was subject to earthquakes (i. p. 60). Lamia is celebrated in history on account of the war which the Athenians and the confederate Greeks carried on against Antipater in B.C. 323. Antipater was at first unsuccessful, and took refuge in Lamia, where he was besieged for some time by the allies. From this circumstance this contest is usually called 1 3"