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Lasea
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Ancient Lasea A coastal city in Crete, and mentioned in Acts 27:8.

Acts 27:8 - And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city [of] Lasea.

Lasaea
(?asa?a). A town in the south of Crete, not far from the Promontorium Samonium mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles (xxviii. 8). - Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

Lasea LASAEA
LASAEA (?asa?a), a city in Crete, near the roadstead of the �Fair Havens.� (Acts, 27.8.) This place is not mentioned by any other writer, but is probably the same as the Lisia of the Peutinger Tables, 16 M. P. to the E. of Gortyna. (Comp. H�ck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 412, 439.) Some MSS. have Lasea; others, Alassa. The Vulgate reads Thalassa, which Beza contended was the true name. (Comp. Coneybeare and Howson, Life and Epist. of St. Paul, vol. ii. p. 330.) - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) William Smith, LLD, Ed.

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