place
Laodicea ad Mare
Laodicea (Syria)
also: Laodiceam, Laudiceam, Laodicea on the coast, Laodicea, the one in Syria
Laodicea ad Mare, a port on the Syrian coast (modern Latakia). Here Dolabella took refuge and was besieged by C. Cassius Longinus in 43 BC. Not to be confused with the inland Phrygian Laodicea in Asia.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 12.13 §4 He has pitched camp before the town of Laodicea
This is Laodicea ad Mare on the Syrian coast (modern Latakia), where Dolabella took refuge and was besieged --- not the inland Phrygian Laodicea in the province of Asia.