Laconica
Sometimes called Laconia by the Romans, a country of Peloponnesus.
Laelaps (The Storm Wind). He was personified as the swift dog which Procris had received from Artemis (Diana), and gave to her husband Cephalus. When the Teumessian fox was sent to punish the Thebans, Cephalus sent the dog Laelaps against the fox. The dog overtook the fox, but Zeus (Jupiter) changed both animals into a stone.
Laelius, C. The friend of Scipio Africanus the elder, who fought under the latter in almost all his campaigns.