Laodice of Cappadocia, flourished second half of 2nd century BC and first half of 1st century BC) was a Princess from the Kingdom of Pontus.
After Aristonicus was taken prisoner, the people of Massilia
sent ambassadors to Rome to intercede for the Phocaeans their friends, whose
city and even name the senate had ordered to be destroyed, because, both at
that time, and previously in the war against Antiochus, they had taken up arms
against the Roman people. The embassy obtained from the senate a pardon for
them. Rewards were then bestowed on the princes who had given aid against
Aristonicus; to Mithridates of Pontus was allotted Greater Phrygia; to the sons
of Ariarathes, king of Cappadocia, who had fallen in that war, were assigned
Lycaonia and Cilicia; and the Roman people were more faithful to the sons of
their ally, than their mother was to her children, since by the one the kingdom
of the young princes was increased, by the other they were deprived of life.
For Laodice, out of six children, all boys, whom she had by
king Ariarathes (fearing that, when some of them were grown up, she would not
long enjoy the administration of the kingdom), killed five by poison; but the
care of their relatives rescued from the barbarous hands of their mother one
infant, who, after the death of Laodice (for the people killed her for her
cruelty), became sole king.
[Justinus:
Epitome of Pompeius Trogus' Philippic Histories , Book 37:1 (Translated
by Rev. J.S.Watson, 1853)]
[2021-1/10/21]
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