Leucas
place · 4 works · 9 mentions · 12 anchored passages
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A Corinthian colony raided by the victorious Corcyraeans after the sea battle.
Subsequently, when the Corinthians and their allies, after being vanquished at sea, were gone home, the Corcyraeans were masters of the whole sea in those parts, and sailed to Leucas, a Corinthian colony, and wasted part of the territory;
while they sent round orders for the fleet to prepare as quickly as possible, and sail to Leucas.
while those from Leucas, Anactorium, and Ambracia had arrived before, and were waiting for them at Leucas.
Against Eubulides
An island where the speaker's father was taken after being sold into slavery, and where he encountered Cleander the actor.
But that he was taken prisoner by the enemy in the course of the Decelean war and was sold into slavery and taken to Leucas, and that he there fell in with Cleander, the actor, and was brought back here to his kinsfolk after a long lapse of time—all this they have omitted to state;
Against Leocrates
An intermediate stop in Leocrates' corn-trading route from Epirus to Corinth.
Living at Megara and using as capital the money which he had withdrawn from Athens he shipped corn, bought from Cleopatra, from Epirus to Leucas and from there to Corinth.
Hellenica
A western Greek city contributing to the fleet and serving as a safe destination after the Corcyra retreat.
And so they reached Leucas in safety.
And when the Zacynthians in the city sent to the Lacedaemonians and told them the sort of treatment they had received at the hands of Timotheus, the Lacedaemonians immediately deemed the Athenians guilty of wrong-doing, set about preparing a fleet again, and fixed the proportionate contingents, for a total of sixty ships, from Lacedaemon itself, Corinth, Leucas, Ambracia, Elis, Zacynthus, Achaea, …