Leucas
Americannoun
noun
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There is a white rock which stretches out from Leucas to the sea and toward Cephalonia, that takes its name from its whiteness.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus
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 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
C. Footnote 1: Leucas return to footnote mark Footnote 2: Ambrose Philips, whose Winter Piece appeared in No. 12 of the Tatler, and whose six Pastorals preceded those of Pope.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
It has already been remarked that an ox was sacrificed to flies near the temple of Apollo in Leucas.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
A general assembly was summoned to meet at Leucas; but neither did all the states of Acarnania come thither, nor were those who did attend agreed in opinion.
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus
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