Numismata hellenica: a catalogue of Greek coins; with notes, a map ...

K.
Kadphises of Bactria proved by his dress on his coins to
have been a Tartar or Scythian ; deductions from the
Greek and Arianian characters, and from the figures of
Siva and the Indian bull, on his coins, K. 57.
KafiapeirtiQ, an epithet of the god Lunus, derived from
Kamar, moon, in Phoenician and Arabic, As. 92.
Kanerki, or Kanerku, of Bactria shown to have adopted
the worship of the sun and fire by the inscription and
the altar on his coin, K 58.
Kavaia imSiiiiaTtj(pdpos and x^a/iiif parts of the
Alexander the Great and successors, K 1.
King
dress of
of kings, a title assumed by a nameless king of
Bactria, and by his predecessor Azes, K. 57 : also by
many of the Arsacidae, K. 66.
KiSpapa, the city of this name mentioned by Herodotus
on the confines of Lydia and Phrygia, As. 42.
Lacanatae (Commagenes) inhabited a mountainous district
between Commagene Proper and Cappadocia; position
of the city unknown. As. 72.
Lacedremon, the deities on its coins Minerva, Hercules,
Apollo, Diana, and the Dioscuri; portrait of Cleo-
menes III. and statue of Apollo Amyclasus on some of
its coins, Eu. 55, 56 : its coins as a member of the
Achaian League, Eu. 3.
Lacon (Caius Julius), son and successor of Eurycles,
governor of Laconia, named on a coin of Lacedaemon,
Eu. 56, 57.
Lselaps, the dog presented to Cephalus by his wife Procris,
represented on a coin of Same Cephallenias, Ins. 37.
Lagena, near Stratoniceia Carije, its celebrated temple of
Hecate, As. 124.
Aaiplitivoe on coins of Hierapolis Phrygi» a Phrygian
epithet of Apollo, As. 66.
Lamia, now Zituni, chief town of the Malienses, Eu.
58. 68.
Lampsacus (Mysise), now Lampsaki, a Phocsean colony j
its principal deities Neptune, Bacchus, and Priapus ; the
winged half-horse on its coins a symbol of Neptune,
As. 72 : head of a Persian satrap on one of its gold coins,
As. 148.
Laodice poisons her husband Antiochus II., K. 23.
Laodiceia (Phrygise sive ad Lycum) so called by Antiochus
II. in honour of his sister and wife ; situated at
the confluence of the rivers Lycus and Caprus, whence
the wolf and boar on some of its coins. As. 73.
(Syrise) thus named by Seleucus I. after his
mother; distinguished from Laodiceia wpdc AiPdviji,
by the epithet irpog 9a\auay ; favours conferred upon
it by Julius Caesar hence named ; also the city tUv
'loi'Xilwv, with an aera commencing in 48 B.C. ; a
Phoenician city before the Macedonian ; conquest preserves
its ancient name and relative importance. As.
74.
Lapersae, the Dioscuri so called from having besieged and
taken Las Laconiae, Eu. 60.
I>appa (Cretae), its territory confining on that of Aptara;
its site now called Polls ; restored by Augustus for
espousing his cause, Ins. 24.
Larinum (Frentanorum), now Larino, its
from the Pelasgic Lar (head), Eu. 125.
name derived
Larisa or Larissa CThessaliae), the types of many of its coins
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relate to the Thessalian horses, and the skill of the Thes-
salians in taming them, and in catching the wild bulls;
others allude to Perseus, Aleuas, Andromache, and the
fountain Messeis, Eu. 58, 59.
Larissa (iEolidis) surnamed Phriconis, a chief town of the
Pelasgi, now called Fokies or New Phocaea, As. 75.
See Cyllene.
Cremaste (Phthiotidis), now Gardhiki, the birth-
place of Achilles, whence the epithet Larissaeus given
to him by Virgil ; Thetis on a sea monster bearing the
shield of Achilles represented on one of its coins, Eu.
160.
(Syriae) so named by the Macedonians, and now
Kalat Seidjar, midway between the Macedonian cities
Apameia and Epiphaneia, As. 75.
Las (Laconiae), now Passava, ¥m. 60.
Lasea (Cretae), this name erroneous in the English version
of Acts xxvii. 8, and rightly Thalassa, as translated in
the Vulgate, Ins 44.
Latraus. See Heracleia loniae.
Lathyrus, epithet of Ptolemy VIII., K. 61.
Laus colonized from Achaia and Sybaris; its site not that
of the present Laino, Eu. 126. 136.
Lebedus (loniae), now Xingi, between Teos and Colophon,
As. 76.
Leben (Cretae), its temple of Asclepius, Ins. 33.
Lemnus, the city so named by Homer, afterwards Myrhina,
Ins. 19.
Leontini (Siciliae), now Lentini, its worship of Apollo;
described by Cicero as " caput rei frumentarise "
; agreeing
with the ears and grains of corn on its coins, Ins.
60 : a Corinthian colony ; hence Corinthian types on
some of its didrachma, Eu. 8. Ins. 61.
Lesbus, the city so named by Homer, afterwards Mytilene,
Ins. 26.
Lete (Macedoniae) situated near the silver mines of Macedonian
Thrace hence ; its rich silver coinage, Eu. 60 : its
worship of Bacchus, Eu. 6l.
Lethaeus, the river of Magnesia Ionise, a branch of the
Maiander, As. 77.
, a river separating the territories of Phaestus and
Gortyna, Ins. 30.
Leucas (Acarnaniae) one of the towns which contributed
their inhabitants to Nicopolis, Eu. 8 : remains of its
walls at Amaxikhi, in the island of Lefkadha, Eu. 61.
(Syriae) on the Chrysorrhoas in the Antilibanus ;
chief town of a tetrarchy under Lysanias, As. 76.
Leucaspis, a companion of Hercules, figured and named
on a coin of Syracuse, Ins. 73.
Leuce Acte, a town of the Thracian Chersonese, Eu. 32.
Leucippus, leader of the Achaeans by whom Metapus was
colonized, named on some coins of Metapontium,
Eu. 129.
Leucon, king of Pontus and Bosporus, coins of this king
extant, K. 47-
Ligeia, sister of Parthenope, represented on the coins of
Terina, Eu. 152.
Lilybaeum, Cape Lilybaeum, and the modern Marsala, all
the same place ; founded and peopled from Motya by
Himilco, Ins. 61.
Lindus. See Rhodus.
Lipara, now Lipari, the only
one of the .(Golian Islands
which struck money; colonized by Greeks, chiefly from
Cnidus, in the sixth century B.C., Ins. 61.
Locri, their didrachma with Corinthian types probably
struck at Naupactus, Eu. 63.
(Italiae) a colony of the Locri Hesperii of the Crissaean
gulf; its remains on the river Sant' Ilario ; its
temple of Proserpine plundered by Pyrrhus, and after-