Leucas
Americannoun
noun
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Now scientists have discovered that Delphinapterus leucas is facing a new global threat.
From The Guardian
While Achaean influence spread out to the more southerly Ionian islands, Corinth carried her dialect with her colonies to the coast of Acarnania, Leucas and Corcyra.
From Project Gutenberg
The currant, by far the most important of Greek exports, is cultivated in a limited area extending along the southern shore of the Gulf of Corinth and the seaboard of the Western Peloponnesus, 435 in Zante, Cephalonia and Leucas, and in certain districts of Currants.
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Eubulus says— As sweet as Wine from Leucas or Miletus.
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Amphis says in his Leucas— Whoever buys some ὄψον for his supper, And, when he might get real genuine fish, Contents himself with radishes, is mad.
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