Laodicea ad Lycum, a Hellenistic city of southwestern Phrygia (modern Denizli province), at the meeting of major trade routes and the chief assize town of the Cibyratic conventus. Cicero held assize there in his Cilician proconsulship (Ad fam. 3.5 etc.); under Flaccus it was the scene of the Lycia and Phrygia depositions, and the public flogging episode of Verr. 2.1.76.