Leuce
- The name of several islands.
- A Near Crete, over against Cydonia, now Fort Suda, Plin. 4, 12, 20, § 61.—
- B In the Euxine Sea, near the mouth of the Borysthenes, also called Achillea and Achillis insula, now Oulan Adassi, Fidonisi, or Serpents’ Island, Mel. 2, 7, 2; Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 93.—
- II A city in Laconia, Liv. 35, 27 init.
(Λεύκη), a nymph, a daughter of Oceanus, who was carried of by Pluto; and after her death, was changed into a white poplar in Elysium. (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. 7.61.) [L.S]
LEUCE
1.An island lying off Cydonia, in Crete (Plin. Nat. 4.12), which Mr. Pashley (Trav. vol. 1. p. 51) takes for the rock on which the fortress of Súdha is built. (Comp. Höck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 384, 438.)
2.An island which Pliny (Plin. Nat. 4.12) couples with ONISIA, as lying off the promontory of Itanum. These small islands are now represented by the rocks of the Grándes. [E.B.J]
LEUCE, PR. (Λευκὴ ἀκτή), a promontory of MARMARICA in N. Africa, W. of the promontory Hermaeum. On the white cliff from which its name was obtained there stood a temple of Apollo, with an oracle. Its position is uncertain; but most probably it is the long wedge-shaped headland, which terminates the range of hills (Aspis) forming the Catabathmos Minor, and which is now called Ras-al-Kanaïs. (Strab. 17. p. 799; Scyl. p. 44, Hudson; Ptol. 4.5.8; Stadiasm. Mar. Nag. p. 437.)
[P.S](Λευκή). An island in the Euxine Sea, near the mouth of the Borysthenes. It derived its name from its white, sandy shores. According to the poets, the souls of the ancient heroes were placed here as in the Elysian fields, and enjoyed perpetual felicity. Here, too, the shade of Achilles is fabled to have been united to that of Helen.