LAODICEA, a town of Phrygia, called, to distinguish it from other cities of the same name, _Laodicea ad Lycum_. Spon, in his account of his travels, says it is rased to the ground, except four theatres built, with marble, finely polished, and in as good condition as if they were modern structures; now called _Ladik_. LAODICEA AD MARE, a considerable town on the coast of Syria, well built, with a commodious harbour. LATIUM, the country of the Latini, so called from king Latinus; contained at first within narrow bounds, but greatly enlarged under the Alban kings and the Roman consuls, by the accession of the Æqui, Volsci, Hernici, &c. LECHÆUM, the west port of Corinth, which the people used for their Italian trade, as they did _Cenchræ_ for their eastern or Asiatic. LEPTIS, there were in Africa two ancient cities of the name, _Leptis magna_, and _Leptis parva_. The first (now called _Lebeda_) was in the territory of Tripoli; the second, a town on the Mediterranean, not far from Carthage. LESBOS, an island in the Egean Sea, near the coast of Asia; the birth-place of Sappho: now called _Metelin_. LEUCI, a people of Gallia Belgica, to the north of the Lingones, between the Moselle and the Meuse. LIBYA, the name given by the Greeks to all Africa; but, properly speaking, it was an interior part of Africa. LIGERIS; now the _Loire_. LIGURIA, a country of Italy, divided into the maritime, _Ligus Ora_; and the inland _Liguria_; both between the Apennine to the south, the Maritime Alps to the west, and the Po to the north. It contained what is now called _Ferrara_, and the _territories of Genoa_. LINGONES, a people of Gallia Belgica, inhabiting the country about _Langres_ and _Dijon_. LONGOBARDI, or LANGOBORDI, a people of Germany, between the Elbe and the Oder. See Manners of the Germans, s. 40 note a. LUCANIA, a country of ancient Italy; now called the _Basilicate_. LUGDUNUM, a city of ancient Gaul; now _Lyons_. LUGDUNUM BATAVORUM, a town of the Batavi, now _Leyden_ in Holland. There was another town of the name in Gallia Celtica, at the confluence of the Arar (the _Saone_) and the Rhodanus (the _Rhone_). The place is now called Lyons. LUPPIA, a river of Westphalia; now the _Lippe_. LUSITANIA, now the kingdom of _Portugal_, on the west of Spain, formerly a part of it. LYCIA, a country in Asia Minor, bounded by Pamphylia, Phrygia, and the Mediterranean. LYDIA, an inland country of Asia Minor, formerly governed by Crœsus; now _Carasia_. LYGII, an ancient people of Germany, who inhabited the country now called _Silesia_, and also part of _Poland_. M. MACEDONIA, a large country, rendered famous by Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander; now a province of the Turkish empire, bounded by Servia and Bulgaria to the north, by Greece to the south, by Thrace and the Archipelago to the east, and by Epirus to the west.