The pastures on this mountain produced good cheese LESTADÃE. [NAXOS.] LE'SURA, a branch of the Mosella (Mosel), mentioned by Ausonius (Mosella, v. 365). He calls it "exilis," a poor, ill-fed stream. The resemblance of name leads us to conclude that it is the Leser or Lisse, which flows past Wittlich, and joins the Mosel on the left bank. [G. L.] LETANDROS, a small island in the Aegaean sea, near Amorgos, mentioned only by Pliny (iv. 12. s. 23). LETE (Arn: Eth. Anraîos), a town of Macedonia, which Stephanus B. asserts to have been the native city of Nearchus, the admiral of Alexander the Great; but in this he is certainly mistaken, as Nearchus was a Cretan. (Comp. Arrian, Ind. 18; Diod xix. 19.) [E. B. J.] R COIN OF LETE. LETHAEUS (An@aîos, Strab. x. p. 478; Ptol. iii. 17. § 4; Eustath. ad Hom. Il. ii. 646; Solin. 17; Vib. Seq. 13), the large and important river which watered the plain of Gortyna in Crete, now the Malogniti. [E. B. J.] the distance of 180 stadia from Elis, and 120 from Olyn.pia. It was said to have been founded by Letreus, a son of Pelops (Paus. vi. 22. § 8.) Together with several of the other dependent townships of Elis, it joined Agis, when he invaded the territories of Elis; and the Eleians were obliged to surrender their supremacy over Letrini by the peace which they concluded with the Spartans in B. C. 400. (Xen. Hell. iii. 2. §§ 25, 30.) Xenophon (l. c.) speaks of Letrini, Amphidoli, and Marganeis as Triphylian places, although they were on the right bank of the Alpheius; and if there is no corruption in the text, which Mr. Grote thinks there is (Hist. of Greece, vol. ix. p. 415), the word Triphylian must be used in a loose sense to signify the dependent townships of Elis. The Λετρίναῖαι γύαι are mentioned by Lycophron (158). In the time of Pausanias nothing remained of Letrini except a few houses and a temple of Artemis Alpheiaea. (Paus. l. c.) Letrini may be placed at the village and monastery of St. John, between Pyrgo and the port of Katakolo, where, according to Leake, among many fragments of antiquity, a part of a large statue was found some years ago. (Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 188; Boblaye, p. 130, &c.; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. i. p. 72.) LEVACI, a people in Caesar's division of Gallia, which was inhabited by the Belgae. The Levaci, with some other small tribes, were dependent on the Nervii. (B. G. v. 39.) The position of the Levaci is unknown. [G. L.] LEVAE FANUM, in Gallia Belgica is placed by the Table on the road from Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden) to Noviomagus (Nymegen). Levae Fanum is between Fletio (Vleuten) and Carvo; 25 M. P. from Fletio and 12 from Carvo. [CARVO.] D'Anville, assuming that he has fixed Carvo right, supposes that there is some omission of places in the Table between Fletio and Carvo, and that we cannot rely upon it. He conjectures that Levae Fanum may be a little beyond Dursteede, on the bank opposite to that of the Batavi, at a place which he calls Liven-dael (vallis Levae), this Leva being some local divinity. Walckenaer fixes Levae Fanum at Leersum. [G. L.] LEUCA (тà ▲evкά, Strab.: Leuca), a small town of Calabria, situated close to the Iapygian promontory, on a small bay immediately to the W of that celebrated headland. Its site is clearly marked by an ancient church still called Sta. Maria LETHAEUS (Antaîos), a small river of Caria, which has its sources in Mount Pactyes, and after a short course from north to south discharges itself into the Maeander, a little to the south-east of Mag-di Leuca, but known also as the Madonna di Finisnesia. (Strab. xii. p. 554, xiv. p. 647; Athen. xv. p. 683) Arundell (Seven Churches, p. 57) describes the river which he identifies with the ancient Lethaeus, as a torrent rushing along over rocky ground, and forming many waterfalls. [L. S.] 66 terra, from its situation at the extreme point of Italy in this direction. The Iapygian promontory itself is now known as the Capo di Leuca. Strabo is the only author who mentions a town of this name (vi. p. 281), but Lucan also notices the LETHES FL. [GALLAECIA.] secreta littora Leucae" (v. 375) as a port freLETO'POLIS (ANTOûs móλis, Ptol. iv. 5. § 46; quented by shipping; and its advantageous position, AnToûs, Steph. B. s. v.; Letus, Itin. Anton. p. 156: at a point where so many ships must necessarily Eth. AnTomoλirns), a town in Lower Egypt, near touch, would soon create a town upon the spot. It the apex of the Delta, the chief of the nome Leto- was probably never a municipal town, but a large polites, but with it belonging to the nomos or pre-village or borgo, such as now exists upon the spot fecture of Memphis. (Strab. xvii. p. 807.) It was probably situated on the banks of the canal of Memphis, a few miles SW. of Cercasorum. Leto, from whom the town and the nome derived their name, was an appellation of the deity Athor, one of the eight Dii Majores of Aegypt. Lat. 30° N. [W.B.D.] LETRINI (Aéтpivoi, Paus.; Aerpíva, Xen.), a town of Pisatis in Elis, situated near the sea, upon the Sacred Way leading from Elis to Olympia, at in consequence of the double attraction of the port and sanctuary. (Rampoldi, Corogr. dell'Italia, vol. ii. p. 442.) Strabo tells us (1. c.) that the inhabitants of Leuca showed there a spring of fetid water, which they pretended to have arisen from the wounds of some of the giants which had been expelled by Hercules from the Phlegraean plains, and who had taken refuge here. These giants they called Leuternii, and hence gave the name of LEUTERNIA to all the surrounding district. The same story is told, with some variations, by the pseudo-Aristotle (de Mirab. 97); and the name of Leutarnia is found also in Lycophron (Alex. 978), whose expressions, however, would have led us to suppose that it was in the neighbourhood of Siris rather than of the Iapygian promontory. Tzetzes (ad loc.) calls it a city of Italy, which is evidently only an erroneous inference from the words of his author. The Laternii of Scylax, whom he mentions as one of the tribes that inhabited lapygia, may probably be only another form of the same name, though we meet in no other writer with any allusion to their existence as a real people. [E. H. B.] LEUCA, the name given by Pomponius Mela (i. 16), to a district on the west of Halicarnassus, between that city and Myndus. Pliny (H. N. v. 29) mentions a town, Leucopolis, in the same neighbourhood, of which, however, nothing else is known to us. [L. S.] LEUCADIA. [LEUCAS.] LEUCAE or LEUCE (A€ûкαι, Acúкn), a small town of Ionia, in the neighbourhood of Phocaea, was situated, according to Pliny (v. 31), "in promontorio quod insula fuit." From Scylax (p. 37) we learn that it was a place with harbours. According to Diodorus (xv. 18) the Persian admiral Tachos founded this town on an eminence on the sea coast, in B.C. 352; but shortly after, when Tachos had died, the Clazomenians and Cymaeans quarrelled about its possession, and the former succeeded by a stratagem in making themselves masters of it. At a later time Leucae became remarkable for the battle fought in its neighbourhood between the consul Licinius Crassus and Aristonicus, B. C. 131. (Strab. xiv. p. 646; Justin, xxxvi. 4.) Some have supposed this place to be identical with the Leuconium mentioned by Thucydides (viii. 24); but this is impossible, as this latter place must be looked for in Chios. The site of the ancient Leucae cannot be a matter of doubt, as a village of the name of Levke, close upon the sea, at the foot of a hill, is evidently the modern representative of its ancient namesake. (Arundell, Seven Churches, p. 295.) [L. S.] LEUCAE (Aeûкαi), a town of Laconia situated at the northern extremity of the plain Leuce, now called Phiniki, which extended inland between Acriae and Asopus on the eastern side of the Laconian gulf. (Polyb. v. 19; Liv. xxxv. 27; Strab. viii. p. 363 Leake, Morea, vol. i. p. 226, seq.; Boblaye, Recherches, &c. p. 95; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 290.) LEUCARUM, a town in Britain, mentioned in the Itinerary as being 15 miles from Isca Dumnuniorum, and 15 from Nidum. The difficulties involved in this list (viz. that of the 12th Itinerary) are noticed under MURIDUNUM. The Monumenta Britannica suggests both Glastonbury in Somersetshire, and L'wghor in Glamorganshire. [R. G. L.] mainland. C'Актǹ ǹπeípoι, Od. xxiv. 377; comp. Strab. x. pp. 451, 452.) Homer also mentions its well-fortified town NERICUS (Nhpikos, l. c.) Its earliest inhabitants were Leleges and Teleboans (Strab. vii. p. 322), but it was afterwards peopled by Acarnanians, who retained possession of it till the middle of the seventh century B. C., when the Corinthians, under Cypselus, founded a new town near the isthmus, which they called Leucas, where they settled 1000 of their citizens, and to which they removed the inhabitants of the old town of Nericus. (Strab. I. c.; Scylax, p. 13; Thuc. i. 30; Plut. Them. 24; Scymn. Chius, 464.) Scylax says that the town was first called Epileucadii. The Corinthian colonists dug a canal through this isthmus, and thus converted the peninsula into an island. (Strab. I. c.) This canal, which was called Dioryctus, and was, according to Pliny, 3 stadia in length (AtópUKTOS, Polyb. v. 5; Plin. iv. 1. s. 2), was after filled up by deposits of sand; and in the Peloponnesian War, it was no longer available for ships, which during that period were conveyed across the isthmus on more than one occasion. (Thuc. iii. 81, iv. 8.) It was in the same state in B. C. 218; for Polybius relates (v. 5) that Philip, the son of Demetrius, had his galleys drawn across this isthmus in that year; and Livy, in relating the siege of Leucas by the Romans in B.C. 197, says, “Leucadia, nunc insula, et vadoso freto quod perfossum manu est, ab Acarnania divisa" (xxxiii. 17). The subsequent restoration of the canal, and the construction of a stone bridge, both of which were in existence in the time of Strabo, were no doubt the work of the Romans; the canal was probably restored soon after the Roman conquest, when the Romans separated Leucas from the Acarnanian confederacy, and the bridge was perhaps constructed by order of Augustus, whose policy it was to facilitate communications throughout his dominions. Leucadia is about 20 miles in length, and from 5 to 8 miles in breadth. It resembles the Isle of Man in shape and size. It consists of a range of limestone mountains, terminating at its north-eastern extremity in a bold and rugged headland, whence the coast runs in a south-west direction to the pro montory, anciently called Leucates, which has been corrupted by the Italians into Cape Ducato. The name of the cape, as well as of the island, is of course derived from its white cliffs. The southern shore is more soft in aspect, and more sloping and cultivated than the rugged rocks of the northern coast; but the most populous and wooded district is that opposite Acarnania. The interior of the island wears everywhere a rugged aspect. There is but little cultivation, except where terraces have been planted on the mountain sides, and covered with vineyards. The highest ridge of the mountains rises about 3000 feet above the sea. Between the northern coast of Leucadia and that LEUCAS (Aeuкás), a place in Bithynia, on the of Acarnania there is at present a lagoon about river Gallus, in the south of Nicaea, is mentioned 3 miles in length, while its breadth varies from only by Anna Comnena (p. 470), but can be easily 100 yards to a mile and a half. The lagoon is in identified, as its name Lefke is still borne by a neat most parts only about 2 feet deep. This part of little town in the middle of the beautiful valley of the coast requires a more particular description, the Gallus. (Leake, Asia Minor, pp. 12,13.) [L.S.] which will be rendered clearer by the accompanying LEUCAS, LEUCA'DIA (A€Uкás, Thuc., Xen., plan. At the north-eastern extremity of Leucadia Strab.; Aevkadía, Thuc. Liv.: Eth. Aevкádios), a lido, or spit, of sand, 4 miles in length, sweeps an island in the Ionian sea, separated by a narrow out towards Acarnania. (See Plan, A.) On an channel from the coast of Acarnania. It was ori-isolated point opposite the extremity of this sandginally part of the mainland, and as such is described bank, is the fort of Santa Maura, erected in the by Homer, who calls it the Acte or peninsula of the middle ages by one of the Latin princes, but repaired that the isthmus and canal were a little south of the city of Leucas, that is, between Fort Alexander (Plan, 2) on the island, and Paleocaglia on the mainland (Plan, 3). The channel is narrowest at this point, not being more than 100 yards across; and it is probable that the old capital would have been built close to the isthmus connecting the peninsula with the mainland. It has been cononjectured that the long spit of sand, on which the fort Santa Maura has been built, probably did not exist in antiquity, and may have been thrown up at first by an earthquake. and modelled both by the Turks and Venetians. (Plan, B.) The fort was connected with the island by an aqueduct, serving also as a causeway, 1300 yards in length, and with 260 arches. (Plan, 5.) It was originally built by the Turks, but was ruined by an earthquake in 1825, and has not since been repaired. It was formerly the residence of the Venetian governor and the chief men of the island, who kept here their magazines and the cars (auagai) which they carried down their oil and wine from the inland districts, at the nearest point of the island. The congregation of buildings thus formed, and to which the inhabitants of the fortress gradually retired as the seas became more free from corsairs, arose by degrees to be the capital and seat of government, and is called, in memory of its origin, Amarichi ('Auatixiov). (Plan, C.) Hence the fort alone is properly called Santa Maura, and the capital Amarichi; while the island at large retains its ancient name of Leucadia. The ruins of the ancient town of Leucas are situated a mile and a half to the SE. of Amarichi. The site is called Kaligóni, and consists of irregular heights forming the last falls of the central ridge of the island, at the foot of which is a narrow plain between the heights and the lagoon. (Plan, D.) The ancient inclosure is almost entirely traceable, as well round the brow of the height on the northern, western, and southern sides, as from either end of the height across the plain to the lagoon, and along its shore. This, as Leake observes, illustrates Livy, who remarks (xxxiii. 17) that the lower parts of Leucas were on a level close to the shore. The remains on the lower ground are of a more regular, and, therefore, more modern masonry than on the heights above. The latter are probably the remains of Nericus, which continued to be the ancient acropolis, while the Corinthians gave the name of Leucas to the town which they erected on the shore below. This is, indeed, in opposition to Strabo, who not only asserts that the name was changed by the Corinthian colony, but also that Leucas was built on a different site from that of Neritus. (x. p. 452). But, on the other hand, the town continued to be called Nericus even as late as the Peloponnesian War (Thuc. iii. 7); and numerous instances occur in history of different quarters of the same city being known by distinct names. Opposite to the middle of the ancient city are the remains of the bridge and causeway which here crossed the lagoon. (Plan, 1.) The bridge was rendered necessary by a channel, which pervades the whole length of the lagoon, and admits a passage to boats drawing 5 or 6 feet of water, while the other parts of the lagoon are not more than 2 feet in depth. The great squared blocks which formed the ancient causeway are still seen above the shallow water in several places on either side of the deep channel, but particularly towards the Acarnanian shore. The bridge seems to have been kept in repair at a late period of time, there being a solid cubical fabric of masonry of more modern workmanship erected on the causeway ou the western bank of the channel. Leake, from whom this description is taken, argues that Strabo could never have visited Leucadia, because he states that this isthmus, the ancient canal, the Roman bridge, and the city of Leucas were all in the same place; whereas the isthmus and the canal, according to Leake, were near the modern fort Santa Maura, at the distance of 3 miles north of the city of Leucas. But K. O. Between the fort Santa Maura and the modern town Amarichi, the Anglo-Ionian government have constructed a canal, with a towing-path, for boats drawing not more than 4 or 5 feet of water. (Plan, 4.) A ship-canal, 16 feet deep, has also been commenced across the whole length of the lagoon from Fort Santa Maura to Fort Alexander. This work, if it is ever brought to a conclusion, will open a sheltered passage for large vessels along the Acarnanian coast, and will increase and facilitate the commerce of the island. (Bowen, p. 78.) A. Spit of sand, which Leake supposes to be the isthmus. Amarichi. B. Fort Santa Maura. C. D. City of Lencas. E. Site of isthmus, according to K. O. Müller. 1. Remains of Roman bridge. 2. Fort Alexander. 3. Paleocaglia. 4. New canal. 5. Turkish aqueduct and bridge. Of the history of the city of Leucas we have a few details. It sent three ships to the battle of Salamis (Herod. viii. 45); and as a colony of Corinth, it sided with the Lacedaemonians in the Peloponnesian War, and was hence exposed to the hostility of Athens. (Thuc. iii. 7.) In the Macedonian period Leucas was the chief town of Acarnania, and the place in which the meetings of the Acarnanian confederacy were held. In the war between Philip and the Romans, it sided with the Macedonian monarch, and was taken by the Romans after a gallant defence, B. C. 197. (Liv. xxxiii. 17.) After the conquest of Perseus, Leucas was separated by (Liv. xlv. 31.) It continued to be a place of importance down to a late period, as appears from the fact that the bishop of Leucas was one of the Fathers of the Council of Nice in A. D. 325. The constitution of Leucas, like that of other Dorian towns, was originally aristocratical. The large estates were in the possession of the nobles, who were not allowed to alienate them; but when this law was abolished, a certain amount of property was no longer required for the holding of public offices, by which the government became democratic. (Aristot. Pol. ii. 4. § 4.) Besides Leucas we have mention of two other places in the island, PHARA (Papá, Scylax, p. 13), and HELLOMENUM (EAAóuevov, Thuc. iii. 94). The latter name is preserved in that of a harbour in the southern part of the island. Pherae was also in the same direction, as it is described by Scylax as opposite to Ithaca. It is perhaps represented by some Hellenic remains, which stand at the head of the bay called Basiliké. The celebrated promontory LEUCATAS (AeUKáras, Scylax, p. 13; Strab. x. pp. 452, 456, 461), also called LEUCATES or LEUCATE (Plin. iv. 1. s. 2; Virg. Aen. iii. 274, viii. 676; Claud. Bell. Get. 185; Liv. xxvi. 26), forming the south-western extremity of the island, is a broken white cliff, rising on the western side perpendicularly from the sea to the height of at least 2000 feet, and sloping precipitously into it on the other. On its summit stood the temple of Apollo, hence surnamed Leucatas (Strab. x. p. 452), and Leucadius (Ov. Trist. iii. 1. 42, v. 2. 76; Propert. iii. 11. 69). This cape was dreaded by mariners; hence the words of Virgil (Aen. iii. 274): "Mox et Leucatae nimbosa cacumina montis, It still retains among the Greek mariners of the COIN OF LEUCAS. Greece. (Ptolem. Heph. ap. Phot. Cod. 190. p. 153 a., ed. Bekker.) (Leake, North. Greece, vol. iii. p. 10, seq.; Bowen, Handbook for Travellers in Greece, p. 75, seq.) LEUCA'SIA. [MESSENIA.] LEUCA'SIUM. [ARCADIA, p. 193, No. 15.] LEUCATA, a part of the coast of Gallia Narbonensis: "ultra (lacum Rubresum) est Leucata, littoris nomen, et Salsulae Fons" (Mela, ii. 5). Mela seems to mean that there is a place Leucata, and that part of the coast is also called Leucata. This coast, according to D'Anville, is that part south of Narbonne, which lies between the Etang de Sigean and Salses. He conjectures, as De Valois had done, that the name may be Greek. He quotes Roger de Hoveden, who speaks of this coast under the name Leucate: "quandam arenam protensam in mari, quae dicitur caput Leucate." The common name of this head is now Cap de la Franqui, which is the name of a small flat island, situated in the recess of the coast to the north of the cape. (D'Anville, Notice, &c., Leucata.) [G. L.] LEUCA TAS PROM. [LEUCAS.] LEUCE. 1. An island lying off Cydonia, in Crete (Plin. iv. 12), which Mr. Pashley (Trav. vol. i. p. 51) takes for the rock on which the fortress of Sudha is built. (Comp. Höck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 384, 438.) 2. An island which Pliny (iv. 12) couples with ONISIA, as lying off the promontory of Itanun. These small islands are now represented by the rocks of the Grandes. [E. B. J.] LEUCE ACTE (Aеvкǹ àктý), a port on the coast of Thrace, between Pactye and Teiristasis, which is mentioned only by Scylax of Carvanda (p. 28). [L. S.] LEÚCE PR. (AεUкh aктh), а promontory of MARMARICA, in N. Africa, W. of the promontory Hermaeum. On the white cliff from which its name was obtained there stood a temple of Apollo, with an oracle. Its position is uncertain; but most probably it is the long wedge-shaped headland, which terminates the range of hills (Aspis) forming the Catabathmos Minor, and which is now called Ras-al-Kanais. (Strab. xvii. p. 799; Scyl. p. 44, Hudson; Ptol. iv. 5. § 8; Stadiasm. Mar. Mag. p. 437.) [P. S.] LEUCI (AEUKO), a Gallic people (Strab. p. 193; Ptol. ii. 9. § 13; Caes. B. G. 1. 40), between the Mediomatrici on the north and the Lingones on the south. They occupied the valley of the Upper Mosel. One of their chief towns was Tullum (Toul). Their territory corresponded with the diocese of Toul, in which were comprised the dioceses of Nancy and Saint-Dié until 1774, when these two dioceses were detached from that of Toul. (Walckenaer, Géog. fc. vol. i. p. 531.) The Leuci are only mentioned once in Caesar, and with the Sequani and Lingones: they were to supply Caesar with corn. Pliny (iv. 17) gives the Leuci the title of Liberi. Lucan celebrates them in his poem (i. 424) as skilled in throwing the spear: 'Optimus excusso Leucus Rhemusque lacerto." Tacitus (Hist. i. 64) mentions "Leucorum civitas," which is Tullum. [G. L.] LEUCIANA. [LUSITANIA.] LEUCI MONTES or ALBI MONTES (rà Aevκà 8pm, Strab. x. p. 479; Ptol. iii. 17. § 9), the snow-clad summits which form the W. part of the mountain range of Crete. Strabo (1. c.) asserts that the highest points are not inferior in elevation to Taygetus, and that the extent of the range is 300 tadia. (Comp. Theophrast. H. P. iii. 11, iv. 1; Plin. xvi. 33; Callim. Hymn. Dian. 40.) The bold and beautiful outline of the "White Mountains" is still called by its ancient title in modern Greek, Tà ǎanрa Bouvá, or, from the inhabitants, тà Σpakiavà Bouvá. Crete is the only part of Greece in which the word pn is still in common use, denoting the loftier parts of any high mountains. Trees grow on all these rocky mountains, except on quite the extreme summits. The commonest tree is the prínos or ilex. (Pashley, Trav. vol. i. p. 31, vol. ii. p. 190; Höck, Kreta, vol. i. p. 19.) [E. B. J.] LEUCIMNA. [CORCYRA, pp. 669, 670.] LEUCOLLA (AEUKOλλa), a promontory on the south-east of Pamphylia, near the Cilician frontier. (Plin. v. 26; Liv. xxvii. 23; Pomp. Mela, i. 15.) In the Stadiasmus Maris Magni (§§ 190, 191) it is called Leucotheium (AevkÓUELOV). Mela erroneously places it at the extremity of the gulf of Pamphylia, for it is situated in the middle of it; its modern name is Karaburnu. (Leake, Asia Minor, p. 196.) [L. S.] LEUCOLLA (Aeúkoλλa, Strab. xiv. p. 682), a harbour of Cyprus, N. of Cape Pedalium. It is referred to in Athenaeus (v. p. 209, where instead of Kwas, Kúpos should be read), and is identified with Porta Armidio e Lucola, S. of Famagusta. (Engel, Kypros, vol. i. p. 97.) [E. B. J.] LEUCO'NIUM (Aevкáviov). 1. A place mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary (p. 260) in the south of Paunonia, on the road from Aemona to Sirmium, 82 Roman miles to the north-west of the latter town. Its site is pointed out in the neighbourhood of the village of Rasboistje. 2. A town of Ionia, of uncertain site, where a battle was fought by the Athenians in B. c. 413. (Thucyd. viii. 24.) From this passage it seems clear that the place cannot be looked for on the mainland of Asia Minor, but that it must have been situated near Phanae, in the island of Chios, where a place of the name of Leuconia is said to exist to this day. Polyaenus (viii. 66) mentions a place, Leuconia, about the possession of which the Chians were involved in a war with Erythrae; and this Leuconia, which, according to Plutarch (de Virt. Mul. vii. p. 7, ed. Reiske), was a colony of Chios, was probably situated on the coast of Asia Minor, and may possibly be identical with Leucae on the Hermaean gulf. [Comp. LEUCAE.] [L. S.] LEUCOPETRA (AEυкожÉтрα), a promontory of Bruttium, remarkable as the extreme SW. point of Italy, looking towards the Sicilian sea and the E. coast of Sicily. It was in consequence generally regarded as the termination of the chain of the Apennines. Pliny tells us it was 12 miles from Rhegium, and this circumstance clearly identifies it with the modern Capo dell' Armi, where the moun. tain mass of the southern Apennines in fact descends to the sea. The whiteness of the rocks composing this headland, which gave origin to the ancient name, is noticed also by modern travellers. (Strab. vi. p. 259; Plin. iii. 5. s. 10; Ptol. iii. 1. § 9; Swinburne, Travels, vol. i. p. 355.) It is evidently the same promontory which is called by Thucydides Пéтpa τns Pnyins, and was the last point in Italy where Demosthenes and Eurymedon touched with the Athenian armament before they crossed over to Sicily. (Thuc. vii. 35.) It was here also that Cicero touched on his voyage from Sicily, when, after the | pair into Greece, and where he was visited by some friends from Rhegium, who brought news from Rome that induced him to alter his plans. (Cic. Phil. i. 3, ad Att. xvi. 7.) In the former passage he terms it "promontorium agri Rhegini:" the “Leucopetra Tarentinorum" mentioned by him (ad Att. xvi. 6), if it be not a false reading, must refer to quite a different place, probably the headland of Leuca, more commonly called the Iapygian promontory. [LEUCA.] [E. H. B.] LEUCOPHRYS (Aevкóppus), a town in Caria, apparently in the plain of the Maeander, on the borders of a lake, whose water was hot and in constant commotion. (Xenoph. Hell. iv. 8. § 17, iii. 2. $ 19.) From the latter of the passages here referred to, we learn that the town possessed a very revered sanctuary of Artemis; hence surnamed Arteinis Leucophryene or Leucophryne. (Paus. i. 26. § 4; Strab. xiv. p. 647; Tac. Ann. iii. 62.) The poet Nicander spoke of Leucophrys as a place distinguished for its fine roses. (Athen. xv. p. 683.) Respecting Leucophrys, the ancient name of Tenedos, see TENEDOS. [L S.] LEUCO'SIA (Aevkwσla), a small island off the coast of Lucania, separated only by a narrow channel from the headland which forms the southern boundary of the gulf of Paestum. This headland is called by Lycophron akтh 'Evinéws, "the promontory of Neptune," and his commentators tell us that was commonly known as Posidium Promontorium (rò Hooeidńjïov). (Lycophr. Alex. 722; and Tzetz. ad loc.) But no such name is found in the geographers, and it seems probable that the promontory itself, as well as the little island off it, was known by the name of Leucosia. The former is still called Punta della Licosa; the islet, which is a mere rock, is known as Isola Piana. It is generally said to have derived its ancient name from one of the Sirens, who was supposed to have been buried there (Lycophr. l. c.; Strab. I. c.; Plin. iii. 7. s. 13); but Dionysius (who writes the name Leucasia) asserts that it was named after a female cousin of Aeneas, and the same account is adopted by Solinus. (Dionys. i. 53; Solin. 2. § 13.) We learn from Symmachus (Epp. v. 13, vi. 25) that the opposite promontory was selected by wealthy Romans as a site for their villas; and the remains of ancient buildings, which have been discovered on the little island itself, prove that the latter was also resorted to for similar purposes. (Romanelli, vol. i. p. 345.) [E. H. B.] LEUCO'SIA (Λευκωσία, Λευκουσία), a city of Cyprus, which is mentioned only by Hierocles and the ecclesiastical historian Sozomen (H. E. i. 3, 10). The name is preserved in the modern Lefkosia or Nikosia, the capital of the island. (Engel, Kypros, vol. i. p. 150; Mariti, Viaggi, vol. i. p. 89; Pococke, Trav. in the East, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 221.) [E. B. J.] LEUCOSYRI (AEURÓσ υ, o), the ancient name of the Syrians inhabiting Cappadocia, by which they were distinguished from the more southern Syrians, who were of a darker complexion. (Herod. i. 72, vii. 72; Strab. xvi. p. 737; Plin. H. N. vi. 3; Eustath. ad Dionys. 772, 970.) They also spread over the western parts of Pontus, between the rivers Iris and Halys. In the time of Xenophon (Anab. v. 6. § 8, &c.) they were united with Paphlagonia, and governed by a Paphlagonian prince, who is said to have had an army of 120,000 men, mostly horsemen. This name was often used by the Greeks, even |