Leucas
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
I there told them that this Leap was used to be taken from a Promontory of Leucas.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
The cliff of Leucas knew no distinction of sex, and Sappho can be set against Anaxarete.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
While they were so engaged Agrippa sailed suddenly to Leucas and captured the vessels there, took Patrae by conquering Quintus Nasidius in a fight at sea, and later also reduced Corinth.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus by Herbert Baldwin Foster
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