Ly̆cāŏnia, a country of Asia, between Cappadocia, Pisidia, Pamphylia, and Phrygia, made a Roman province under Augustus. Iconium was the capital. Strabo, bk. 10.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 2.—Livy, bk. 27, ch. 54; bk. 38, ch. 39.——Arcadia bore also that name, from Lycaon, one of its kings. Dionysius of Halicarnassus.——An island in the Tiber.
Ly̆cas, a priest of Apollo in the interest of Turnus. He was killed by Æneas. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 315.——Another officer of Turnus. Æneid, bk. 10, ch. 561.
Ly̆caste, an ancient town of Crete, whose inhabitants accompanied Idomeneus to the Trojan war. Homer, Iliad, bk. 2.——A daughter of Priam by a concubine. She married Polydamas the son of Antenor.——A famous courtesan of Drepanum, called Venus on account of her great beauty. She had a son called Eryx, by Butes son of Amycus.
Lycastum, a town of Cappadocia.
Lycastus, a son of Minos I. He was father of Minos II., by Ida the daughter of Corybas. Diodorus, bk. 4.——A son of Minos and Philonome daughter of Nyctimus. He succeeded his father on the throne of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, chs. 3 & 4.
Lyce, one of the Amazons, &c. Flaccus, bk. 6, li. 374.
Lyces, a town of Macedonia. Livy, bk. 31, ch. 33.
Lycēum. See: [Lycæum].
Lychnīdus, now Achridna, a city with a lake of the same name, in Illyricum. Livy, bk. 27, ch. 32; bk. 44, ch. 15.
Ly̆cia, a country of Asia Minor, bounded by the Mediterranean on the south, Caria on the west, Pamphylia on the east, and Phrygia on the north. It was anciently called Milyas and Tremile, from the Milyæ or Solymi, a people of Crete, who came to settle there. The country received the name of Lycia, from Lycus the son of Pandion, who established himself there. The inhabitants have been greatly commended by all the ancients, not only for their sobriety and justice, but their great dexterity in the management of the bow. They were conquered by Crœsus king of Lydia, and afterwards by Cyrus. Though they were subject to the power of Persia, yet they were governed by their own kings, and only paid a yearly tribute to the Persian monarch. They became part of the Macedonian empire when Alexander came into the east, and afterwards were ceded to the house of the Seleucidæ. The country was reduced into a Roman province by the emperor Claudius. Apollo had there his celebrated oracle at Patara, and the epithet hiberna is applied to the country, because the god was said to pass the winter in his temple. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 4, lis. 143 & 446; bk. 7, li. 816.—Statius, Thebiad, bk. 6, li. 686.—Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 173.—Strabo, bk. 13.—Livy, bk. 37, ch. 16; bk. 38, ch. 39.