Lāŏdĭce

, a daughter of Priam and Hecuba, who became enamoured of Acamas son of These us, when he came with Diomedes from the Greeks to Troy with an emba y to demand the restoration of Helen. She obtained an interview and the gratification of her desires at the house of Philebia, the wife of a governor of a small town of Troas, which the Greek amba ador had visited. She had a son by Acamas, whom she called Munitus. She afterwards married Helicaon, son of Antenor and Telephus king of Mysia. Some call her Astyoche. According to the Greek scholiast of Lycophron, Laodice threw herself down from the top of a tower and was killed, when Troy was sacked by the Greeks. Dictys Cretensis , bk. 1 .— Pausanias , bk. 13 , ch. 26 .— Homer , Iliad , bks. 3 & 6.――One of the Oceanides.――A daughter of Cinyras, by whom Elatus had some children. Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 14 .――A daughter of Agamemnon, called also Electra. Homer , Iliad , bk. 9 .――A sister of Mithridates, who married Ariarathes king of Cappadocia, and afterwards her own brother Mithridates. During the secret absence of Mithridates, she prostituted herself to her servants, in hopes that her husband was dead; but when she saw her expectations frustrated, she attempted to poison Mithridates, for which she was put to death.――A queen of Cappadocia, put to death by her subjects for poisoning five of her children.――A sister and wife of Antiochus  II. She put to death Berenice, whom her husband had married. See: Antiochus  II. She was murdered by order of Ptolemy Evergetes, B.C. 246.――A daughter of Demetrius, shamefully put to death by Ammonius, the tyrannical minister of the vicious Alexander Bala king of Syria.――A daughter of Seleucus.――The mother of Seleucus. Nine months before she brought forth she dreamt that Apollo had introduced himself into her bed, and had presented her with a precious stone, on which was engraved the figure of an anchor, commanding her to deliver it to her son as soon as born. This dream appeared the more wonderful, when in the morning she discovered in her bed a ring answering the same description. Not only the son that she brought forth, called Seleucus, but also all his succe ors of the house of the Seleucidæ, had the mark of an anchor upon their thigh. Justin. Appian , Syrian Wars mentions this anchor, though in a different manner.