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22), a sister of Andromachus, the father of Achae- 9 and 10. Two daughters-of Antiochus Sidetes,
us. It seems not improbable that she was a niece otherwise unknown, both bore the name of Laodice,
of the preceding, but Niebuhr (KI. Schrift. p. 263), (Euseb. Arm. p. 167.)
who calls her so, has erroneously made her 11. Wife of Ariarathes V., king of Cappadocia,
daughter of Andromachus, instead of his sister, by whom she had six sons, all of whom, except the
and Droysen (Hellenism. vol. ii. p. 347) has fallen youngest, she successively put to death, in order
into the same mistake. Great confusion certainly that she herself might continue to exercise the suexists concerning the two, but there seems no preme power in their name without interference.
reason to doubt the authority of Polybius; and At length the people revolted by her cruelties, rose
we have no evidence that the Achaeus who is in insurrection against her, and put an end to her
uentioned by Eusebius as father of No. 2, was the life. (Justin. xxxvii. 1. )
same as the father of Andromachus. She was the 12. Wife and also sister of Mithridates Eupator
mother of Seleucus Ceraunus and Antiochus the (commonly called the Great), king of Pontus.
Great. During the absence of her husband, and deceived
4. Wife of Antiochus the Great, was a daughter by a report of his death, she gave free scope to her
of Mithridates IV., king of Pontus, and grand- amours; and, alarmed for the consequences, on his
daughter of No. 2. She was married to Antiochus return attempted his life by poison. Her designs
soon after his accession, about B. C. 222, and pro- were, however, betrayed to Mithridates, who imclaimed queen by him at Antioch before he set out mediately put her todeath. (Justin. xxxvii. 3.)
on his expedition against Molon. The birth of her 13. Another sister of Mithridates Eupator,
eldest son, Antiochus, took place during the ab- married to Ariarathes VI., king of Cappadocin.
sence of the king on that exhibition. (Polyb. v. After the death of her husband, who was assassi43, 55.) She was the mother of four other sons, nated by Gordius, at the instigation of Mithridates,
and four daughters, who will be found enumerated in order to avoid a similar fate for herself and her
under ANTIocHUs III. two sons, she threw herself into the arms of Nico5. Wife of Achaeus, the cousin and adversary medes, king of Bithynia, whom she married, and
of Antiochus the Great, was a sister of the pre- put in possession of Cappadocia. The revolutions
ceding, being also a daughter of Mithridates IV., that followed are related under ARIARATHES.
king of Pontus. (Polyb. viii 22.) When Achaeus After the death of her two sons, she joined with
fell into the power of Antiochus (B. C. 214) Lao- Nicomedes in the attempt to establish an impostor
dice was left in possession of the citadel of Sardis, upon the throne of Cappadocia, and even went to'
in which she held out for a time, but was quickly Rome to bear witness in person that she had had'
compelled by the dissensions among her own troops three sons by Ariarathes; notwithstanding which,
to surrender to Antiochus. (Id. viii. 23.) Polybius the claim of the pretender was rejected by the
incidentally mentions that this princess was brought senate. (Justin. xxxviii. 1, 2.)
up before her marriage at Selge, in Pisidia, under 14. A queen of the Galadeni, mentioned by
the care of Logbasis, a citizen of that place. (Id. Josephus as being engaged in war with the Parv. 74.) thians, when Antiochus X., king of Syria, came to,
6. Daughter of Antiochus the Great by his wife her-assistance, but was killed in battle. (Joseph.
Laodice [No. 4]. She was married to her eldest Ant. xiii. 13. ~ 4.) [E. H. B.]
brother Antiochus, who died in his father's life- LAO'DICUS (Aadacos), a Hyperborean hero,
time, B. C. 195. (Appian, Syr. 4; Liv. xxxv. 15.) who, together with Hyperochus and Pyrrhus, came
Froelich supposes her to have been afterwards to assist the Delphians against the Gauls. (Paus.
married to her younger brother Seleucus IV., and i. 4. ~ 4, x. 23. ~ 3; comp. Herod. viii. 39.) It
to have been the mother of Denmetrius Soter, but should, however, be remarked, that in Pausanias
there appears to be no authority for this statement. the common reading is'ApAuso'os or AaoaJKOS,
7. Daughter of Seleucus IV. Philopator, was where Miiller writes AadSLcos. [L. S.]
married to Perseus, king of Macedonia. (Polyb. LAO'DOCUS (AaoSo'Kos). 1. A son of Apollo
xxvi. 7; Liv. xlii. 12; Inscr. Del. ap. Marie. and Phthia, a brother of Dorus and Polypoethes, in
Arundel. No. 41.) The marriage is spoken of by Curetis, was killed by Aetolus. (Apollod. i. 7.
Polybius in the year B. C. 177, as having then lately ~ 6.)
taken place. 2. A son of Bias and Pero, and a brother of
8. Daughter of Antiochus IV. Epiphanes, and Talaus, took part in the expedition of the Argotherefore first cousin of the preceding. She is first nauts, and in that of the Seven against Thebes.
mentioned as being taken to Rome by Heracleides, (Apollod. iii. 6. ~ 4; Apollon. Rhod. i. 119; Val.
when he determined to set up the claim of the im- Flacc. i. 358; Orph. A.gyon. 146.)
postor Alexander Balas against Demetrius Soter, 3. A son of Antenor. (Hom. I1. iv. 87.)
who at that time occupied the throne of Syria. In 4. The friend and charioteer of Antilochus.
the decree of the senate in their favour Laodice is (Hom. [l. xvii. 699.) [L. S.]
associated with her supposed brother Alexander, LAO'GORAS (Aaoyopas), a king of the Dryand it is probable that she was proclaimed queen opes, was allied with the Lapithae against Aegitogether with him after the defeat of Demetrius. mius, but was slain by Heracles. (Apollod. ii. 7.
(Polyb. xxxiii. 14, 16.) It seems much more ~ 7.) [L. S.]
likely, therefore, that the " Laodice regina," men- LAO'MEDON (Aaog1ceFv), a king of Troy, the
tioned in the epitome of Livy (lib. 1-l.) as being son of Ilus and Eurydice, and the father of Priam,
subsequently put to death by Alexander's minister Tithonus, Lampus, Clytius, Hicetaon, and BucoAmmonius, is tile person in question, than the wife lion. (Hom. II. xx. 236, &c., vi. 23; Apollod. iii.
of Demnetrius (as supposed by Visconti, Iconoglraphie 12. ~ 3.) *His wife is called Strymo, or Rhoeo,'Grecque, tom. ii. p. 324, and Millingen, Ancient Placia, Thoosa, Zeuxippe, or Leucippe. (Apollod.
Coins of Cities and Kings, p. 76), of whom we have 1. c.; Schol. ad Horn. Il. iii. 250; Tzetz. ad Lycoph.
otherwise no knowledge.. -18.) Apollodorus further mentions three daughters