Leukas
Americannoun
noun
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Hermes leads them, gibbering like bats, past various underworld landmarks, the white rock of Leukas, etc., and on their way they pass the δῆμον ὀνείρων, which Homer leaves undescribed and unexplained.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 17, 2018
In 1915, his volume of poems, Sappho in Leukas, attracted immediately the attention of discriminating critics.
From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Phelps, William Lyon
When he arrived at Leukas, which, like Syracuse, was a Corinthian colony, he said that he was like a young man who has got into disgrace.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
A fleet from Corinth was to join another at Leukas, one of the Ionian Islands, and then proceed to operate on the northern coast of the gulf while an army invaded the province.
From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver
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