Laodiceia
Λαοδίκεια ἡ πρὸς Λιβάνῳ
Laodiceia, AD LIBANUM (Λαοδίκεια ἡ πρὸς Λιβάνῳ), mentioned by Strabo (xvi. p.755) as the commencement of the Marsyas Campus, which extended along the west side of the Orontes, near its source. [MARSYAS CAMPUS.] It is called Cabiosa Laodiceia by Ptolemy (Καβίωσα Λαοδίκεια, 5.15), and gives its name to a district (Λαοδικηνή), in which he places two other towns, Paradisus (Παράδεισος) and Jabruda (Ἰάβμουδα). Pliny (5.23), among other people of Syria, reckons ad orientem Laodicenos, qui ad Libanum cognominantur.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.