Laodicea

City of s. w. Phrygia, on the Lycus; rebuilt and named by Antiochus II. 260 B.C.; held by the Romans from 133 B.C.; residence of Cicero 50-49 B.C.; long rich and populous; seat of a medical school and of one of the "7 Churches of Asia," denounced Rev. iii. 14-18 as lukewarm: meeting-place of two councils, 363 and 476; repeatedly injured by earthquakes; destroyed by Tamer lane 1402. Other cities bore this name, especially one in e. Phrygia or Lycaonia.