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Letus, i, m., a mountain in Liguria, Liv. 41, 18; Val. Max. 1, 5.

    1. 1. †† leuca (leuga), ae, f. [a Celtic word, whence the Fr. lieue], a Gallic mile of 1500 Roman paces, a league: Λεύκη μέτρον τι Γαλακτικόν, Hesych.: leuca finitur passibus mille quingentis, Isid. Orig. 15, 16: cum et Latini mille passus vocent, et Galli leucas, et Persae parasangas, et rastas universa Germania, Hier. in Joel, 3, 18: exinde non millenis passibus sed leugis itinera metiuntur, Amm. 15, 11, 17: quarta leuga signabatur et decima, id est unum et viginti millia passuum, id. 16, 12, 8; cf. also Inscr. Orell. 1018; 1019; 5063.

2. Leuca, ae, f., a town in Calabria, near the Iapygian promontory, now S. Maria di Leuca: secretaque littora Leucae, Luc. 5, 376.

Leucădĭa, ae, and Leucas, ădis, f., = Λευκαδία, an island (previously a peninsula) in the Ionic Sea, opposite Acarnania, with a famous temple of Apollo, now S. Maura, Mel. 2, 7, 10; Plin. 4, 1, 2, § 5; Liv. 33, 17, 8; acc. Leucada, Ov. M. 15, 289; id. H. 15, 172.
Hence,

  1. A. Leucădĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the island of Leucadia, Leucadian: aequor, Ov. H. 15, 166: litus, Plin. 4, 1, 2, § 5: vinum, id. 14, 7, 9, § 76; Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 86: Dites damnosos maritos apud Leucadiam Oppiam, id. Curc. 4, 1, 24: deus, i. e. Apollo, who had a temple in Leucadia, Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 76; 3, 1, 42; cf. Apollo, Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 69: quotannis Tristia Leucadio sacra peracta modo (the Leucadians had a custom of casting every year a criminal from a mountain into the sea; they sought, however, by attaching wings to him, to break the violence of his fall, and to pick him up in boats, whereupon he was banished out of the island), Ov. F. 5, 630; cf. id. Tr. 5, 2, 76; id. H. 15, 165 sq.
    1. 2. Subst.
      1. a. Leu-cădĭa, ae, f., the mistress of Varro Atacinus, Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 86.
        1. (β) The name of a comedy of Turpilius, Cic. Tusc. 4, 34, 72.
      2. b. Leucădĭi, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Leucadia, Leucadians, Liv. 33, 17.
  2. B. Leucas, ădis, f., the capital of Leucadia, Mel. 2, 3, 10; Plin. 4, 1, 2, § 5; Liv. 33, 17, 7; 11.

Leucas, ădis, f., = Λευκάς.

  1. I. For Leucadia, v. h. v.
  2. II. The capital of the island Leucadia; v. Leucadia, B.
  3. III. The promontory Leucata; v. Leucata.
      1. 1. † leucaspis, ĭdis, adj., f., = λεύκασπις, armed with a white shield: phalanx, Liv. 44, 41.

Leucāta, ae, and Leucātē, ēs, f. (Leucāte, is, n., Serv. Verg. A. 3, 279.
Leucātes, ae, m., Claud. B. G. 185.
Leucas, ădis, f., Ov. H. 15, 172; Sen. Herc. Oet. 732), a promontory in the island of Leucadia, now Capo Ducato, Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 41; Liv. 26, 26; 44, 1: Leucatae nimbosa cacumina montis, Verg. A. 3, 274; Liv. 36, 15; Plin. 4, 1, 2, § 5.

    1. 1. † leucē, ēs, f., = λεύκη.
  1. I. The spotted dead-nettle: Lamium maculatum, Linn.; Plin. 27, 11, 77, § 102.
  2. II. The white poplar, into which Leuce, the daughter of Oceanus, whom Pluto fell in love with and carried off to the infernal regions, was changed after her death, Serv. Verg. E. 7, 61.
  3. III. A kind of wild radish, horseradish, Plin. 19, 5, 26, § 82.
  4. IV. A kind of white spots on the skin, Cels. 5, 28, 19 (shortly before written as Greek).

2. Leucē, ēs, f., = Λευκή.

  1. I. The name of several islands.
    1. A. Near Crete, over against Cydonia, now Fort Suda, Plin. 4, 12, 20, § 61.
    2. B. In the Euxine Sea, near the mouth of the Borysthenes, also called Achillea and Achillis insula, now Oulan Adassi, Fidonisi, or Serpents’ Island, Mel. 2, 7, 2; Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 93.
  2. II. A city in Laconia, Liv. 35, 27 init.