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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.

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.