Leucothea
noun
a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
Leukothea
-
a variation of
Leucothea.
Example Sentences
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But Ino saw him—Ino, Kadmos’ daughter, slim-legged, lovely, once an earthling girl, now in the seas a nereid, Leukothea.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
This goddess, from the rites with which she is worshipped, one would imagine to be the same as the Greek Leukothea.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
Poseidon is forced to withdraw, and, though his companions perish and the ship is wrecked, the nymph Leukothea brings a magic veil which ensures the hero's safety and he swims to the shore.
From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Charles Annesley
