Leucas
Americannoun
noun
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When Gylippus left Leucas, a Corinthian fleet of some fifteen vessels was preparing to sail from that port for Syracuse.
From Stories from Thucydides by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
Meanwhile the Lacedaemonian, Gylippus, and the ships from Corinth were now off Leucas, intent upon going with all haste to the relief of Sicily.
From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Richard Crawley
The island of Leucas, close to the promontory of Actium, is always named by Lucan when he refers to this battle.
From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan
The rock of Leucas has upon it a temple of Apollo, and the leap from it was supposed to stop love.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
Hence it was that so many places sacred to Apollo were styled Leuce, Leuca, Λυκια, Leucas, Leucate.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant
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