Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . t Laiis;but the latter would appear, from Strabos descrip-tion, to have been nearer the sea. Eomanelli wouldplace it at ScaJea, a small town with a good port,about three miles N. of the mouth of the river ; butit is more probable that the ancient city is to belooked for between this and the river Lao. ( p. 1262 ; Eomanelli, vol. i. p. 383.) Accord-ing to Strabo there was, near the river and city, atemple or Heroum of a hero named Dracon, close towliich was the actual scene of the great battle be-tween the Greeks and Lucanians. (Strab. I. c.)
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . t Laiis;but the latter would appear, from Strabos descrip-tion, to have been nearer the sea. Eomanelli wouldplace it at ScaJea, a small town with a good port,about three miles N. of the mouth of the river ; butit is more probable that the ancient city is to belooked for between this and the river Lao. ( p. 1262 ; Eomanelli, vol. i. p. 383.) Accord-ing to Strabo there was, near the river and city, atemple or Heroum of a hero named Dracon, close towliich was the actual scene of the great battle be-tween the Greeks and Lucanians. (Strab. I. c.) Strabo speaks of a gulf of Laiis, by which he canhardly mean any other than the extensive bay nowcalled the Gulf of PoUcastro, which may be con-sidered as extending from the promontoiy of Pynus{Capo degli Infreschi) to near Cirella. Thereexist coins of Laiis, of ancient style, with the in-scription AAINON : they were struck after the de-struction of Sybaris, which was probably the mostflourishing time in the history of Laiis. [E. H. B.]. COIN OF LAU3. LAUS POMPEIA, sometimes also called simplyLaus (^Eth. Laudensis : Lodi Vecckio), a city ofGallia Transpadana, situated 16 miles to the Milan, on the highroad from that city to Pla-centia. {Itin. Ant. pp. 98, 127.) According toPliny it was an ancient Gauhsh city founded by theBoians soon after they crossed the Alps. ( 17. s. 21.) It afterwards became a Eomanmunicipal town, and probably assumed the epithetof Pompeia in compliment to Pompeius Strabo, whoconferred the rights of Latin citizens upon the mu-nicipalities of Transpadane Gaul; but we find nospecial mention of the fact. Nor does any his-torical notice of Laus occur under the Eoman Em-pire : though it seems to have been at that period a,considerable town, and is termed in the Itineraries Laude civitas, and by P. Diaconus Laudensiscivitas. (Itin. Ant. p. 98; Itin. Hier. p. 617;P. Diac. V. 2.) In the middle ages Lodi becamean important city, and an independent re
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