Leucae

LEUCAEor LEUCE(Λεῦκαι, Λεύκη) a small town of Ionia, in the neighbourhood of Phocaea, was situated, according to Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.31), in promontorio quod insula fuit.From Scylax (p. 37) we learn that it was a place with harbours. According to Diodorus (Diod. 15.18) the Persian admiral Tachos founded this town on an eminence on the sea coast, in B.C. 352; but shortly after, when Tachos had died, the Clazomenians and Cymaeans quarrelled about its possession, and the former succeeded by a stratagem in making themselves masters of it. At a later time Leucae became remarkable for the battle fought in its neighbourhood between the consul Licinius Crassus and Aristonicus, B.C. 131. (Strab. 14. p. 646; Justin (Justin. 36.4.) Some have supposed this place to be identical with the Leuconium mentioned by Thucydides (Thuc. 8.24); but this is impossible, as this latter place must be looked for in Chios. The site of the ancient Leucae cannot be a matter of doubt, as a village of the name of Levke, close upon the sea, at the foot of a hill, is evidently the modern representative of its ancient namesake. (Arundell, Seven Churches, p. 295.)

LEUCAE(Λεῦκαι), a town of Laconia situated at the northern extremity of the plain Leuce, now called Phiniki, which extended inland between Acriae and Asopus on the eastern side of the Laconian gulf. (Plb. 5.19; Liv. 35.27; Strab. 8. p. 363; Leake, Morea, vol. 1. p. 226, seq.; Boblaye, Récherches, &c. p. 95; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. 2. p. 290.)

(Λεῦκαι) and Leuca (Λεύκη). A small town on the coast of Ionia in Asia Minor, near Phocaea, built by the Persian general Tachos in B.C. 352. Here was fought a battle between the Roman consul Licinius Crassus and Aristonicus in B.C. 131.