LAODICEIA
LAODICEIA,
AD LIBANUM (
Λαοδίκεια ἡ πρὸς Λιβάνῳ), mentioned by Strabo (
xvi. p.755) as the commencement of the Marsyas Campus, which extended along the west side of the Orontes, near its source. [MARSYAS CAMPUS.] It is called Cabiosa Laodiceia by Ptolemy (
Καβίωσα Λαοδίκεια, 5.15), and gives its name to a district (
Λαοδικηνή), in which he places two other towns, Paradisus (
Παράδεισος) and Jabruda (
Ἰάβμουδα). Pliny (
5.23), among other people of Syria, reckons “ad orientem Laodicenos, qui ad Libanum cognominantur.”
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