Foreign topography; or, an encyclopedick account, alphabetically arranged, of the ancient remains in Africa, Asia, and Europe; forming a sequel to the Encyclopedia of antiquities / By the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke.
- Thomas Dudley Fosbroke
- Date:
- 1828
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Foreign topography; or, an encyclopedick account, alphabetically arranged, of the ancient remains in Africa, Asia, and Europe; forming a sequel to the Encyclopedia of antiquities / By the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![S34> LEGENDS AND SYMBOLS usual costume. Head of Ulysses ; reverse, a thun- derbolt in a wreath. Head of Minerva ; reverse, a naked man, leaning on a long spear j legend in all as above. '' These medals, says Mr. D. “ were evidently struck many centuries after the time of the Ithacensian king.’’] LABYRINTH, symbol of Crete in general, and of Cnossus in particular. LACEDAEMON, AA. and AAKEAAIMONIDN; a diota, with the bonnets of the Dioscuri t a cadu- cous terminating in a club j a winged thunder- bolt an eagle couchant; two diotae j an owl j a lyre. LAMIA, Thessaly; A A. and AAMIEilN 3 a diota, i. e. vase with two handles. Neuman thinks that the coins,-with attributes relative to Bacchus, should be removed from hence to Lampsacus. Dodwell, however, (Greece, ii. 76.) mentions as symbols of Lamia, a caduceus, bunch of grapes, heads of Minerva and Bacchus, and Hercules with his bow killing the stymphalides. LAODICEA. 1, lonius Galaticus-, AAOAIKEiiN; quiver and aegis, which distinguish it from the other Laodiceans. 2. Phrygia, on the confines of Caria; AAOAIKEiiN 5 Jupiter standing. (They are Cistophori.) 3. Syria near the sea; AAOAI- . KEiiN ; upon many coins is an owl and two cor- nucopiae. LAPITH.®, Thessaly; AAIIie.; a lyre. LARINUM or LARIS, Italy; LADlNOD; a horse- man galloping; an eagle displayed on a thunder- bolt 5 a dolphin 3 two cornucopiae. LARISSA, Thessaly; AAPISAIiiN 3 a horse run- ning, or feeding ; a demi-horse. LA TON A; she appears carrying her two children, Apollo and Diana, upon some coins of Ephesus, Tripolis, in Caria, and Magnesia, in Ionia. Upon the latter she sometimes carries only one of her children. LEAF, symbol of Maronea in the Peloponnesus. LEONTINI, Sicily ; AEONTINiiN 3 a lion’s head 3 a grain of barley, or bearded wheat; four grains of the same 3 a demi-lion 3 a lion passant 3 two fish, LESBOS, Isle; AECBmN and AESBOY ; vases 3 raen-centaurs or satyrs in indecent attitudes. OF COLONIAL COINS. which last types some writers refer to Magnesia in Thessaly. LESSINA, a head of Jupiter} reverse, a goat; le- gend, 4'APIi2N. Head of a young man 3 reverse, a diota with <hA.—Dodwell’s Greece, i. 10. LEUCAS, or LEUCADE, Acarnania 3 AEYKAAIDN 3 Pegasus; a club. LILYB.EUM, Sicily; -AIAYBAITAN; a lyre or tripod. LION: Head, symbol, of Cyzicus, Cnidus in Ca- ria, Lysimachia, Rhegium, Salamis; passant, of the kings of Galatia, Capua, Centuripae, Heraclea in Italy, Leontines, Magnesia in Ionia, Messina, Rome, Samosata, Silandus, Smyrna, Syracuse, Tiati, Velia, Heraclea in Acarnania, Lyons ; ram- pant or couchant, beholding a star, of Miletus, tearing an animal, of Morgantium, Velia, Acan- thus. rjPARI, Tis/c, AHIAPAIiiN 3 a trident 3 dolphin; prow of a ship. LOCRIANS, 1. Ozoles in LocrisAOYKPtiN ; Pe- gasus, or a thunderbolt. Neuman ascribes the Pegasus to the Epizephirian Locrians. 2, The Epicnemedian Locrians in Locris. The coins are distinguished from the other Locrians by the sym- bols of a naked man, armed, marching, a grape, or the monogram Oil. Two with EIII and a Pegasus, Neuman gives to the Ozolian or Italian Locris. 3. The Epizephirian Locris in Italy; AOKPftN and A; a winged thunderbolt; two cornucopise; a caduceus; an eagle, couchant, singly, or tearing a stag. The coins are distin- guished from the other Locrians by globules, or a make similar to those of Magna Grecia. Neuman ascribes to the Italian Locrians the coins which have a Pallas and Pegasus. AOrrOS TAAHTDN, Laconia; a tripod. ' LOTUS, flower 3 symbol of Syracuse. LUCERIA, Italy, AOYCERI; a wheel 3 a bull’s head 3 a club, with bow and quiver. LUNUS, the God Month ; symbol of Cibyra, Tra- pezopolis in Caria, Cius in Bithynia, Sebaste in Galatia, and Sardes. LYRE 3 symbol, when that only, or the laurel occurs upon coins, it shows that the place worshipped Apollo. The Lyre is also a symbol of Concord.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0452.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
