. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . cally and historically. The lasteminences of the range of Taurus come down herein majestic masses to the sea, forming the heightsof Cragus and Anticragus, with the river Xanthuswinding between them, and ending in the longseries of promontories called by modern sailors the seven capes, among which are deep inlets favor-able to seafaring and piracy. The Lycians wereincorporated in the Persian empire, and their shipswere conspicuous in the great war against theGreeks (Herodotus, vii. 91, 92). After the deathof Alexander the Great, Lycia was included in
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . cally and historically. The lasteminences of the range of Taurus come down herein majestic masses to the sea, forming the heightsof Cragus and Anticragus, with the river Xanthuswinding between them, and ending in the longseries of promontories called by modern sailors the seven capes, among which are deep inlets favor-able to seafaring and piracy. The Lycians wereincorporated in the Persian empire, and their shipswere conspicuous in the great war against theGreeks (Herodotus, vii. 91, 92). After the deathof Alexander the Great, Lycia was included in theGreek Selcucid kingdom, and was a part of the ter-ritory which the Romans forced Antiochus to was not till the reign of Claudius that Lycia be-came part of the Roman provincial system. Atfirst it was combined with Pampiiylia. At a laterperiod of the Roman empire it was a separate prov-ince, with Myra for its capital. Patara ; Phase-lis. Lydda (L.; Gr. Lvdda ; both fr. Heb. = Lod), atown called in the 0. T. Lod. Here Peter healed. Ludd (— ancient Lydda or Lod)—Ruins of the Church of St. George.—(From Van de Velde.)—(Fbn.) tered indications of Scripture, the modern town, Liddor Ludd, stands in the Merj (meadow) IbnOmeir,part of the great maritime plain anciently namedSharon. It is nine miles from Joppa, and is thefirst town on the northern road between that placeand Jerusalem. The watercourse outside the townis said still to bear the name of Abi-Butrus (Peter), the paralytic Eneas, the consequence of which wasthe conversion of a very large number of the in-habitants of the town and of the neighboring plainof Sharon. Here Peter was residing when thedisciples of Joppa fetched him to that city in theirdistress at Tabithas death (Acts ix. 32, 35, 38).Quite in accordance with these and the other scat- LYD LYS 5G9 in memory of the apostle. It was in the time ofJosephus a place of considerable size, which gavename to one of the three or four governments or toparchies
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