Laodice
11. Wife of Ariarathes V., king of Cappadocia, by whom she had six sons, all of whom, except the youngest, she successively put to death, in order that she herself might continue to exercise the supreme power in their name without interference. At length the people revolted by her cruelties, rose in insurrection against her, and put an end to her life. (Just. 37.1 )
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.