A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

LETREUS. LEUCIPPUS. 773
mentions her as the friend of the Trojans in the reputed founder of Letrini, on the western coast of
war with the Greeks, and in the story of Niobe, Peloponnesus. (Paus. vi. 22. ~ 5.) [L. S.]
who paid so dearly for her conduct towards Leto. LEVANA, a Roman divinity, who derived her
(I1. v. 447, xx. 40, 72, xxiv. 607; comp. xxi. 502, name from the custom that the father picked up
Od. xi. 580, Hymn. in Apoll. 45, &c., 89, &c.) In his new-born child from the ground, by which
later writers these elements of her story are'vari- symbolic act he declared his intention not to kill
ously worked out and embellished, for they do not the child, but to bring it up. (August. De Civ.
describe her as the lawful wife of Zeus, but merely Dei, iv. 11.) [L. S.]
as a concubine, who was persecuted during her LEUCA'DIUS (AevKdcLos), a son of Icarius and
pregnancy by Hera. (Apollod. i. 4, ~ 1; Callim. Polycaste, and a brother of Penelope and Alyzeus.
Hymn. in Del. 61, &c.; Schol. ad Enrip. Phben. Leucas was believed to have derived its name from
232, &c.; Hygin. Fab. 140.) All the world being him. (Strab. x. pp.-452, 461.) Leucadius or
afraid of receiving her on account of Hera, she wan- Leucates also occurs as a surname of Apollo, which
dered about till she came to the island of Delos, he derived from a temple in Leucas. (Strab. 1. c.;
which was then a floating island, and bore the Ov. Trist. iii. 1. 42; Propert. iii. 11. 69; comp.
name Asteria (Callim. Hymin. in Dian. 35, 37, Thuc. iii. 94; Serv. ad Aen. iii. 274.) [L. S.]
191); but when Leto touched it, it suddenly stood LEUCAEUS (Aevuan7os), a surname of Zeus,
still upon four pillars. (Pind. Fraym. 38; Strab. xi. under which he was worshipped at Lepreus, in Elis.
p.485.) Accordingto Hyginus(Fab. 93,140),Delos (Paus. v. 5. ~ 4.) [L. S.]
was previously called Ortygia, while Stephanus LEUCE (AevKc7), a nymph, a daughter of OceByzantinus (s. v. KopLao's) mentions a tradition, anus, who was carried off by Pluto; and after her
according to which Artemis was not born in Delos, death, was changed into a white poplar in Elysium.
but at Corissus. Servius (ad Aen. iii. 72) relates (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vii. 61.) [L. S.]
the following legends: Zeus changed Leto into a LEUCIPPE (AevKidr7rc7). 1. One of the
quail (d'?pv,), and in this state shemarrived in the nymphs who was with Persephone at the time she
floating island, which was hence called Ortygia; was carried off. (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 418; Paus.
or, Zeus was enamoured with Asteria, but she being iv. 30. ~ 4.)
metamorphosed, through her prayers, into a bird, 2. [ALCATHOE.]
flew across the sea; she was then changed into a 3. The wife of Ilus, and mother of Laomedon.
rock, which, for a long time, lay. under the surface (Hygin. Fab. 250.)
of the sea; but, at the request of Leto, it rose and 4. A daughter of Thestor. (Hygin. Fab. 190.)
received Leto, who was pursued by Python. Leto 5. The wife of Thestius. (Hygin. Fab. 14.)
then gave birth to Apollo, who slew Python. 6. A daughter of Minyas of Orchomenos. (Ae(Comp. Anton.' Lib. 35; Ov. Met. vi. 370; Aris- lian, Var. Hist. iii. 42.) [L. S.]
tot. Hist. Anim. vi. 35; Athen. xv. 701; Apollon. LEUCI'PPIDES (Aevitartrtes), i. e. the daughRhod. ii. 707; Iamblich. Vit. Pyth. 10; Strab. xiv. ters of the Messenian prince Leucippus. (Eurip.
p. 639: in each of these passages we find the tra- Helen. 1467.) Their names were Phoebe and
dition modified in a particular way.) But notwith- Hilaeira, and they were priestesses of Athena and
standing the many discrepancies, especially in Artemis, and betrothed to Idas and Lynceus, the
regard to the place where Leto gave birth to her sons.of Aphareus; but Castor and Polydeuces being
children, most traditions agree in describing Delos charmed with their beauty, carried them off and
as the place. (Callim. Hymn. in Apoll. init. 59, married them. (Apollod. iii. 12. ~ 8, 10. ~ 3;
in Del. 206, 261; Aeschyl. Eum. 9; Herod. ii. Paus. i. 18. ~ 1.) When the sons of Aphareus
170.) After the birth of Apollo, his mother not attempted to rescue their beloved brides, they
being able to nurse him, Themis gave him nectar were both slain by the Dioscuri. (Hygin. Fab. 80;
and ambrosia; and by his birth the island of Delos Lactant. i. 10; Ov. Heroild. xvi. 327, Fast. v. 709;
became sacred, so that henceforth it "was not lawful Theocrit.xxii. 137,&c.; Propert.:i.2. 15,&c.) [L.S.]
for any human being to be born or to die on the LEUCIPPUS (AEvscnrros).'1. A son of
island; and every pregnant woman was conveyed Oenomaus. (Paus. viii. 20. ~ 2; iom. Hymn. in
to the neighbouring island of Rheneia, in order not Apoll. 2i2; comp. DAPHNE.)
to pollute Delos. (Strab. x. p. 486.) 2. A son of Perieres and Gorgophone, and
We shall pass over the various speculations of brother of Aphareus. He was the father of Arsinoe,
modern writers respecting the origin and nature of Phoebe, and Hilaeira, and prince of the Messenians.
this divinity, and shall mention only the most pro- He is mentioned among the Calydonian hunters,
bable, according to which Leto is " the obscure" and the Boeotian town of Leuctra is said to have
or ".concealed," not as a physical power, but as a derived its name from him. (Paus. iii. 26. ~ 3, iv.
divinity yet quiescent and: invisible, from whom is 2. ~ 3, 31. ~ 9; Ov. lIfet. viii. 306; Apollod. iii.
issued the visible divinity with all his splendour 10. ~ 3, 11. ~ 2.)'
and brilliancy. This view is supported by the ac- 3. A son of Thurimachus, and father of Calcount of her genealogy given by Hesiod; and her chinia, was king of Sicyon. (Paus; ii. 5. ~ 5.)
whole legend seems to indicate nothing else but 4. A son of Heracles and Eurytele. (Apollod.
the issuing from darkness to -light, and a return ii. 7. ~. 8.)
from the latter to the former. - Leto was generally 5. A son of Naxus, and father of Smerdius, was
worshipped only in conjunction with her children, king of Naxos.:(Diod. v. 51.).,
as at Megara (Paus. i. 44. ~ 2), at Argos (ii. 21. 6. The leader of a colony, which Macareus con-~ 10), at Amphigeneia (Strab. viii. p. 349),- in ducted from Lesbos to Rhodes. (Diod. v. 81.)
Lycia (ibid. xiv. p. 665), near Lete in Macedonia 7. One of the Achaean settlers at Metapontum.
(Steph. Byz. s. v. MATrio), in a grove near Calynda (Strab. vi. p. 265.) [L. S.]
in Caria (Strab. xiv. p. 651), and'other places. LEUCIPPUS (Ast;icrros), a Grecian philoso(Comp. Hirt. MAythol. BIlderb. Tab. v. 4.) [L. S.] pher, who is on all hands admitted to have been
LETREUS (Aeptpevs), a son of Pelops, and the the founder of the atomic theory of the ancient
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