LASEA lə se’ ə (Λασαία, G3297, with variations in different MSS, Lasaia). A city of Crete near Fair Havens.

Luke states in Acts 27:8 that Lasea was near Fair Havens, which the ship on which Paul was being taken to Italy had reached with difficulty. Quite possibly ruins about five m. E of Fair Havens are those of Lasea.

Not much is known about Lasea. It has received little notice in surviving lit.; but it has been thought that it is the same as the Lasos which Pliny the Elder mentions in his Natural History (IV. xii. 59) among the numerous important cities of Crete, an island which he tells us was renowned for the reputation of its 100 cities (ibid., 58).