לוּדְקְיָא, Laodicea, name of several towns, esp. L. ad Lycum, a city of Asia Minor, counted to Lydia (v. לוּד). M. Kat. 26ᵃ, v. יִתְרָא I. B. Mets. 84ᵃ, v. עֲרַק. Y. Ab. Zar. III, 42ᶜ top לדוקיא.—Koh. R. to III, 17; Taan. 18ᵇ; Treat. S’maḥ. ch. VIII; Sifra Emor, Par. 8, ch. IX (לדקיא); Meg. Taan. ch. XII (martyrdom of Lulianus and Papus, v. לוּד). Gen. R. s. 11; Sabb. 119ᵃ; Pesik. R. s. 23.