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LELEGES.
 

  La!ls or Lazi (Autiai, Adfai), a people of Col-

ebis, south of the Phasis,

  [Lea (now probably  Piana or Pianosa), a

imall island in the Bouthern part of the iEgean

Sea.]

  [Leades (Aeddng), son of Astacus,  according

to Apollodorus slew Eteoeles at  the  attack on

Thabes, while  iEschylus  makes  Eteoeles  to

have fallen by the hand of Megareus.]

  Le-ena (Aiaivo), an Athenian hetaera, beloved

by Aristogiton or Harmodius.  On the  murder

of Hipparchus she was put to the torture ; but

she  died  under her sufferings without  making

any  disclosure, and, if we may believe  one  ac¬

count, she  bit off her tongue that  no secret

might be wrung from her.  The Athenians hon¬

ored her memory greatly, and, in  particular, by

a bronze statue of a lioness (Xiaiva) without a

tongue, in the vestibule of the Acropolis.

  [Leagrus (Aiaypog),  son of Glaucon,  one  of

the  commanders  of the Athenians  in  the  at¬

tempt to  colonize Amphipolis, B.O. 465, perish¬

ed in a battle  with  the  Thracians at Drabescus

cr Datus.]

  Leander (AstavSpog or AiavSpog), the  famous

youth  of Abydos, who  was in love with Hero,

the  priestess of Venus (Aphrodite) in  Sestus,

and  swam every night across the Hellespont to

visit her,  and returned  before daybreak. Once

during a stormy night he perished  in the waves.

Next morning his corpse was washed  on  the

coast of Sestus, whereupon Hero  threw herself

into the sea,  This story is  the  subject of  the

poem  of  Musaaus, entitled Be Amore Herds et

Leandri (vid.  Mus-eus), aud  is also mentioned

by Ovid (Her, xviii, 19) and  Virgil (Georg, iii,

858).

  Learchus (Aeapxog).  1.  Vid.  Athamas.—2.

Of Rhegium, one  of those Daedalean artists who

stand  on  the confines of the mythical and his¬

torical periods, and about whom  we have  ex¬

tremely uncertain  information.   One  account

made him a pupil of Daedalus, another of Dipoa-

nus  and Scyllis.

  Lebadea  (Aebdbeia:  now  Livadhia), a town

m Bceotia,  west  of the Lak& Copais, between

Oheeronea and Mount  Helicon, at the foot of  a

rock from which  the River Hercyna  flows.   In

a cave of this rock, close  to  the town,  was  the

celebrated oracle of Trophonius, to  which  the

place ow ed  its importance.

   [Leb-ea (AeSaiij), an ancient  city  in  Upper

Macedonia,  mentioned  only by Herodotus (viii,

137); not a trace of it now exists.]

   Lebedos  (AiBsbog : Asbebiog), one of the twelve

cities  of the Ionian confederacy, in Asia Minor,

stood  on  the coast of Lydia,  between Colophon

and Teos, ninety  stadia east  of the promontory

of Myonneaua. It waa  said to have  been built

at the time  of the Ionian  migration, on  the  site

of  an  earlier  Carian  city;  and  it  flourished,

chiefly by commerce,   until Lysimachus trans¬

planted most  of its  inhabitants  to Ephesus.

Near  it were some mineral springs, which  still

exist near Ekklesia, but no traces remain of the

eity itself.

   Leben or Lebena (AeBijv, AeBnva), a townon

the southc n coast of Crete, ninety stadia south

east of Gortyna, of which it was regarded as

the harbor  It posaesaed a  celebrated temple

 of .(Esculapius.
 

  Lehnthus  (AebivBog : now Lcbitha), m iutand

in the ^Egaean Sea,  one of the Sporades, west

of Galymna, east  of Amorgos, and north of As-

typalaea.

  Lech-eum (re" Aexalov: Aexalog), one  of th«

two harbors of Corinth,  with wMch  it was con¬

nected by two long walls.  It was twelve stadia

from  Corinth, was situated on the  Corinthian

Gulf,  and received all  the ships which cams

from  Italy and Sicily.  It possessed  a temple

of Neptune  (Poseidon), who  was  hence sur¬

named Leehaaus.

  Lectum (rb Asarbv: now  Cape Baba or S. Ma

ria), the southwestern promontory of the Troad

is formed where the western extremity of Mount

Ida juts out into the  sea, opposite to the  north¬

ern side of the island of Lesbos.   It  was the

southern limit  of the Troad; and,  under the

Byzantine emperors, the northern limit  of the

province of Asia.   An altar was shown here in

Strabo's  time,  which was said  to  have been

erected by  Agamemnon to the twelve chief gods

of Greece.

  Leda (Ayba), daughter of Thestius, whence

she is called Thestias, and wife  of Tyndareus,

king of Sparta.   One night she  was  embraced

both by her husband and by Jupiter (Zeus); by

the former she became the  mother of  Castor

and Clytaamnestra, by the  latter of Pollux and

Helena.  According  to  Homer  (Od, xi, 298),

both Castor and Pollux  were  sons of Tyndareus

and Leda, while Helena is described  as a daugh¬

ter of Jupiter (Z«ufc),   Otfcer traditions re perse

the story,  making Castor and Pollux  the sons

of Jupiter  (Zeus), and Helena the daughter of

Tyndareus.  According  to the common legend,

Jupiter (Zeus) visited  Leda in  the form of a

swan; and she brought  forth two egge, from

the one  of whieh issued Helena, and from th6

other Castor  and Pollux.  The visit of Jupiter

(Zeus) to Leda in the form of a swan was fre¬

quently  represented  by  ancient artists.   The

Roman poets sometimes call Helena Ledea, an 1

Castor and Pollux Ledci Bii.

   Ledon (Aebav), a town in Phocis,  northwest

of Tithorea;  the  birth-place of Philomelus, the

commander of the Phocians in the Sacred war •

it was destroyed iu this war.

   Ledus or Ledum (now Les or Lez, near Mont

pellier), a small river in Gallia Narbonensis.

   Leg-e (Ayyai or Ayyeg), a people on the south¬

 ern shore of  the Caspian Sea, belonging to the

same race as  the Cadusii. A branch of them

was  found by the  Romans in the  northern

mountains of Albania, at the time of Pompey's

 expedition into those regions.

   Legto Septima GEMrNA (now Leo:i), a town in

Hispania Tarraconensis, in the  country of the

Asturea, which was originally the head quarters

of the legion so called.

   Leitus (Aijne>g), son  of Aleetor or Akotryon

by Cleobule,  and father  of Peneleus, was on€

of  the Argonauts, and commanded  the Bceo¬

tians in the war against Troy.

   Lelantus  Campus  (rb  AijXavrov  ire blot,),  r

plain  in Eubcea, between Eretria  and Chalcis,

for the  possession of  which  these  two cities

often  contended.   It contained  warm  springs

and mines  of iron and  copper, b'lt was  subject

to frequent earthquakes.

   Leleges (AeXeysg), an ancient race iphieh if

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