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718 LAODICE. LAODICE.
nouns, king of the Phaeacians, and Arete, was the nestra (Hom, II: ix. 146), but the tragic poets call
favourite of his father. (Hom. Od. vii. 170, viii. her Electra. (Hesych. 8. v.; ELECTRA.)
11:6 &c., 130, 370.) 6. A daughter of Agapenor, who founded a
2. A son of Antenor, was slain at Troy by the sanctuary of the Paphian Aphrodite at Tegea, and
Telamonian Ajax..(Hom. II. xv. 516.) sent to Athena Alea a peplus from Cyprus. (Pans.
3, A son of Eteocles, and king of Thebes: in viii. 5. ~ 2, 53. ~ 2.) [L. S.]
his youth he had been under the guardianship of LAO'DICE (Aaos8icn). 1. Wife of Antiochus,.
Creon. (Paus. i. 39. ~ 2.) It was in his reign a general of distinction in the service of Philip of
that the Epigoni marched against Thebes. Laoda- Macedon, and mother of Seleucus, the founder of
mas offered them a battle on the river Glisas, and the Syrian monarchy. It was pretended, in conslew their leader Aegialeus, but he himself was sequence of a dream which she had, that Apollo
killed by Alcmaeon. (Apollod. iii. 7. ~ 3.) Others was the real father of her child. (Justin. xv. 4.)
related, that after the battle was lost, Laodamas No less than five cities were founded by Seleucus
fled in the night with the remnant of his army, and in different parts of his dominions, which bore in
took refuge in the territory of the Encheleans in her honour the name of Laodiceia. (Appian, Syr.
Illyricum. (Paus. ix. 5. ~ 7; Herod. v. 61.) [L. S.1 57.)
LAODAMEIA (AaoadtCela). 1. A daughter 2. Wife of Antiochus TI. Theos, king of Syria,
of Bellerophontes, became by Zeus the mother of and mother of Selencus Callinicus. According to EuSarpedon, and. was killed by Artemis while she sebius (Euseb. Arom. p. 164), she was a daughter
was engaged in weaving. (Hom. II. vi. 197- of Achaeus, probably the same as the father of
205.) Antiochis, who was mother of Attalus I., king of
2. A daughter of Acastus, and wife of Protesi- Pergamus. (See Clinton. F. i1. iii. pp. 310, 401.)
laus. As the latter, shortly after his marriage, The statement of Polyaenus (viii. 50), that she
joined the Greeks in their expedition against Troy, was a daughter of Antiochus Soter, though followed
and was the first that was killed there, Laodameia by Froelich (Ann. Reg. Syriac. p. 26), is probably
sued for the: favour of the gods to be allowed to erroneous. (See Niebuhr, KI. Scirifti. p. 257;
converse with him only for three hours. The re- Droysen, Hellenism. ii. p. 317.) By the peace
quest was granted: Hermes led Protesilaus back concluded between Antiochus and Ptolemy Philato the upper world, and when Protesilaus died a delphus (s. c. 248), it was agreed that the former
second time, Laodameia died with him. (Ov. should marry Berenice, the sister of the Egyptian
Heroid. xiii. Ep. ex Pont. iii. 1, 110; Catull. 64. monarch, and should not only put away Laodice,
74, &c.; Lucian, Dial. Mort. xxiii. 1; Serv. ad but declare her children illegitimate. Antiochus
Aen. vi. 447.) A later tradition states, that after complied for a time, but as soon as he heard of the
the second death of Protesilaus, Laodameia made death of Ptolemy he hastened to recal Laodice and
an image of her husband, to which she payed di- her children. The latter, however, either misvine honours; but as her father Acastus interfered, trusting her husband's constancy, and apprehensive
and commanded her to burn the image, she herself of a second change, or in revenge for the slight
leaped into the fire. (Hygin. Fab. 103, 104.) already put upon her, took an early opportunity to
3. A daughter of Amyclas and Diomede, and the put an end to his life by poison (B. c. 246); at the
mother of Triphylus by Arcas. (Paus. x. 9. ~ 3.) same time artfully concealing his death until she
Some writers call her Leaneira. (Apollod. iii. 9. had taken all necessary measures, and was able to
~ 1.) establish her son Seleucus at once upon the throne.
4. The: nurse of Orestes, is also called Arsinoe. Her next step was to order the execution of her
(Schol. ad Pind.:Pyth. xi. 25; ad Aeschyl. Choeph. rival Berenice and her infant son, who were put to
731; comp. ARSINOE.) death in the sacred grove of Daphne, where they
5. A daughter of Alcmaeon, and wife of Peleus. had taken refuge. An incidental notice, preserved
(Schol. ad Hornm. II. ii. 684.) [L. S.] to us by Athenaeus (xiii. p.. 593), shows that these
LAO'DICE (Aao6tKfl). 1. A Hyperborean were far from being the only vidtims sacrificed to
maiden, who, together with Hyperoche, and five her vengeance. But she did not long retain the
companions, was sent from the country of the Hy- power acquired by so many crimes. The people of
perboreans to carry sacrifices to the island of Delos. Syria broke out into revolt; and Ptolemy Euergetes
(Herod. iv. 33.) having invaded the kingdom, to avenge his sister's
2. A nymph, by whom Phoroneus became the fate, overran almost the whole country. According
father of Apis and Niobe. (Apollod. ii. 1. ~ 1.) to Appian, Laodice herself fell into his hands, and
3. A daughter of Cinyras, and the mother of was put to death; Plutarch, on the contrary (De
Stymphalus and Pereus. (Apollod. iii. 9. ~ 1, 14. Firatern. Amnor. 18, p., 489), represents her as sur~ 3.) viving this war, and afterwards stimulating her
4. A daughter of Priam and Hecabe, and the youngest son, Antiochus Hierax, to make war on
wife of Helicaon. (Hom. II. iii. 123; Pans. x. his brother Seleucus. (Appian, Syr. 65, 66;
26.) According to another tradition, she was the Justin. xxvii. 1; Polyaen. xiii. 50; Hieronym. ad
beloved of Acamas, the son of Theseus, who, with Daniel. xi.; Val. Max. ix. 14, ext. 91; Plin. H. t.
Diomedes, went as ambassador to Troy, and by vii. 10.) Besides these two sons, Laodice had two
whom she became the mother of Munitus. (Par- daughters, one of whom was married to Mithrithen. Eriot. 16.) On the death of this son, Lao- dates IV., king of Pontus, the other to Ariarathes,
dice, in her grief, leaped down a precipice (Lycoph. king of Cappadocia. (Euseb. Arm. p. 164.) Both
497), or was swallowed up by the earth. (Tzetz. of these are called by different authors Stratonice;
-ad Lycoph. 513, 547.) Pausanias (1..c.) saw her but Niebuhr has conjectured (Ki. Schlrift. p. 261)
represented in the Lesche of -Delphi, among the that only one of them really bore that name, and
captive: Trojan women. Hyginus (Fab. ] 01 ) calls the other that of Laodice.
her the wife of Telephus. 3. Wife of Seleucus Callinicus, was, according
5. A -.daughter of Agamemnon and Cl3taem- to the express statement of Polybius (iv. 51, viii.