Λασαία, -as, ἡ, (Lchm. ἴλλασσα, Tr WH Λασέα (see WH. App. p. 160], Vulg. Thalassa), Las@a, Acts xxvii. 8, a city of Crete not mentioned by any ancient geographical or other writer. But this need not excite surprise, since probably it was one of the smaller and less important among the ninety or a hundred cities of the island; ef. Kuinoel ad loc. [Its site was discovered in 1856, some five miles to the E. of Fair Havens and close to Cape Leonda; see Smith, Voyage and Shipwr. of St. Paul, (3d ed. p. 259 sq.) 4th ed. p. 262 sq.; Alford, Grk. Test. vol. ii. Proleg. p. 27 sq.]

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Lasaea, also spelled Λασέα, a maritime town in Crete, Acts 27:8. See PhotoGuide.

Λασέα (Rec. -αία), -ας, ἡ, Lasea, a city of Crete, otherwise unknown: Ac 27:8.†

Λασέα πάντες ἐν εὐθηνίαι ὦσιν ἐπὶ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ βασιλείας, where the editor defines λαός as ‘‘volgus Aegyptiorum, praecipue | opifices et agricolae, eidem fere qui v. 52 ἰδιῶται appellantur ut distinguantur a sacerdotibus,’’ and 26. 225% 2% (iii/B.c.), where it is applied to the native population of Syria. See also Syl 897 (Larisa) Θεοφίλα Σελεύκου γυνὴ τῷ λαῷ χα[ῇρειν : Dittenberger says the word is often so used in epitaphs. The expression λαϊκὰ (σώματα) occurs 42s in P Lille I. 10 (iii/B.c.), where it stands with τεθραμμένα between ἀρσενικά and θηλυκά in an enumeration, but the editors are unable to determine the exact meaning. The adj. is also found in BGU IV. 1053-19 (5.6. 13) μηδὲ ἐπ᾽ ἄσυλον τόπον μηδὲ ἐπὶ λαϊκὴν βοήθηαν. For λαοκρίτης (not in LS), a native judge, cf. P Tebt I. 5515 (p.c. 118) tas δὲ τῶν Αἰγυ(πτίων) πρὸς τοὺς αὐτοὺς «Αἰ-- γυ(πτίους) κρίσεις μὴ ἐπισπᾶσθαι τοὺς χρημαί(τιστὰς) ἀλλ᾽ ἐᾶν κριν (om.) διεξάγεσθαι ἐπὶ τῶν λαοκριτῶν κατὰ τοὺς τῆς χώρας νόμους, ““ ἀπα that suits of Egyptians against Egyptians shall not be dragged by the chrematistae into their own courts, but they shall allow them to be decided before the native judges in accordance with the national laws’’ (Edd.), and P Tor I. 1/3 (B.c. 116) εἰ καὶ ἐπὶ λαοκριτῶν διεκρίνοντο καθ᾽ ols παρεκείτο νόμους, “si apud Populares Iudices lis instituta esset ad praescriptum | legum ab ipso laudatarum”’ (Ed.): see further Archiv v. p- I ff. For Aaoypadia (LXX) in its primary sense of a | taxing-list of native Egyptians, cf. P Tebt I. 103 (B.c. 94 or 61) with the editors’ introduction, and see s.v. ἀπογραφή, On the characteristic use of λαός in the LXX and NT with reference to first the Jews, then the Christians, see Hort on 1 Pet 2°, and cf. Hicks (C7 i. p. 42), who, after remarking | on the “ noble associations” of the word in past Greek life | and thought, points out that ‘‘it was reserved for Jewish lips to give the word a sacred significance and a world-wide currency.”’” On its application to the ‘‘laity’’ as distinguished from the ‘‘ clergy” in the Lycaonian inscrr. from mid. ivy/A.D., see Ramsay Zuke, p. 387 ff. MGr λαϊκός, “layman.” Mayser thinks the word may originally have been a poetic word used primarily in the plur.: see G7. p. 29, but cf. Thumb Archiv iv. p. 490, and Wackernagel He//enistica, p- 10. Aacéa. For the spelling of this proper name cf. WH Noves? p. 167, Moulton Gr. ii. p. 81. Though not mentioned by any ancient writer, Lasea is now generally believed to have been situated about the middle of the S. coast of Crete: cf. J. Smith Zhe Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul‘, 1880, p- 268 f.

Λασαία (Lasaia) — Lasea. Λασέα (Rec. -αία), -ας, ἡ Lasea, a city of Crete, otherwise un­known: Act.27:8.† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)