LAODICEIA
LAODICEIA (
Λαοδίκεια).
1.
A town in Media, founded by Seleucus Nicator, along with the two other Hellenic cities of Apameia and Heracleia. (
Strab. xi. p.524 ;
Steph. B. sub voce Pliny (
6.29) describes it as being in the extreme limits of Media, and founded by Antiochus.
The site has not yet been identified. (Ritter,
Erdkunde, vol. viii. p. 599.)
2.
A town which Pliny (
6.30) places along with Seleuceia and Artemita in Mesopotamia. [
E.B.J]