Leucothea
noun
a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
Leukothea
-
a variation of
Leucothea.
Example Sentences
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But Ino saw him—Ino, Kadmos’ daughter, slim-legged, lovely, once an earthling girl, now in the seas a nereid, Leukothea.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Poseidon is forced to withdraw, and, though his companions perish and the ship is wrecked, the nymph Leukothea brings a magic veil which ensures the hero's safety and he swims to the shore.
From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Charles Annesley
This goddess, from the rites with which she is worshipped, one would imagine to be the same as the Greek Leukothea.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
