. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . .) and Pococke, as a remark-able triumphal arch, at the SE. corner of the town,almost entire: it is built with four entrances, likethe Forum Jani at Rome. It is conjectured that thisarch was built in honour of Lucius Verus, or of Sep-timius Severus. (Description of the East, vol. 197.) Shaw noticed several fragments of Greekand Latin inscriptions,dispersed all over the ruins, butentirely defaced. Pococke states that it was a reryinconsiderable place till within fifty years of his visit,when it opened a tobacco trade with Damietta, andit has now
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . .) and Pococke, as a remark-able triumphal arch, at the SE. corner of the town,almost entire: it is built with four entrances, likethe Forum Jani at Rome. It is conjectured that thisarch was built in honour of Lucius Verus, or of Sep-timius Severus. (Description of the East, vol. 197.) Shaw noticed several fragments of Greekand Latin inscriptions,dispersed all over the ruins, butentirely defaced. Pococke states that it was a reryinconsiderable place till within fifty years of his visit,when it opened a tobacco trade with Damietta, andit has now an enormous traffic in that article, forwhich it is far more celebrated than ever it wasfor its wine. The port is half an hour distant fromthe town, very small, but better sheltered than anyon the coast. Shaw noticed, a furlong to the westof the town, the ruins of a beautiful cothon, infigure like an amphitheatre, and capacious enoughto receive the whole British navy. The mouth ofit opens to the westward, and is about 40 feetwide. [G. W.]. COLN OF LAODICEIA AD MARE. LAODICEIA (Aao8i«e:a). 1. A town in Media,founded by Seleucus Nicator, along with the twoother Hellenic cities of Apameia and Heracleia.(Strab. xi. p. 524 ; Steph. B. s. r.) Pliny (vi. 29)describes it as being in the extreme limits of Media,and founded by Antiochus. The site has not yetbeen identified. (Ritter, Erdkunde, vol viii. p. 599.) 2. A town which Pliny (vi. 30) places along withSeleuceia and Artemita in Mesopotamia. [E. B. J.] LAPATHUS, a fortress near Mount Olympus.[AsctjRis.] LAPATHUS, LAPETHUS (, p. 682; Adw7]6os, Ptol. v. 14. § 4; Plin. v. 31;Arin-ndis, Scyl. p. 41; AdwiOos, Hierocl.: Eih. Aa-irodevs, ; Lapitho,Laj)ta),;xi of Cyprus,the foundation of which was assigned to the Phoeni-cians (Steph. B. s. v.), and which, according to Nonnus 124 LAPATHUS. (Dionys. xiii. 447), owed its name to the legendaryLapathns, a follower of Dionysus. Strabo (I. c.)says that it r
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