Lepreum
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Lepreum territory
in the texts
Birds
A town in Elis proposed by Epops as a settlement and rejected by Euelpides because of its association with Melanthius.
Why not choose Lepreum in Elis for your settlement?
I could not look at Lepreum without disgust, because of Melanthius.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A border town between Laconia and Elis, the central object of dispute between Elis and Sparta, later garrisoned and settled by the Lacedaemonians.
For they were at variance with the Lacedaemonians just then about Lepreum.
Neodamodes, at Lepreum, which is situated on the borders of Laconia and Elis;
declaring that the truce had not yet been proclaimed at Lacedaemon, when they sent their troops into Lepreum.