See LITHUANIANS.
LEUCADIA,
LEUCAS.
Originally a peninsula of Acarnania, on the western coast of
Greece, but converted into an island by the Corinthians, who
cut a canal across its narrow neck. Its chief town, of the
same name, was at one time the meeting place of the Acarnanian
League. The high promontory at the south-western extremity of
the island was celebrated for the temple of Apollo which
crowned it, and as being the scene of the story of Sappho's
suicidal leap from the Leucadian rock.
LEUCÆ, Battle of.
The kingdom of Pergamum having been bequeathed to the Romans
by its last king, Attalus, a certain Aristonicus attempted to
resist their possession of it, and Crassus, one of the consuls
of B. C. 131 was sent against him. But Crassus had no success
and was finally defeated and slain, near Leucæ. Aristonicus
surrendered soon afterwards to M. Perperna and the war in
Pergamum was ended.
_G. Long,
Decline of the Roman Republic,
volume 1, chapter 14._
LEUCATE, Siege and Battle (1637).
See SPAIN: A. D. 1637-1640.
LEUCI, The.
A tribe in Belgic Gaul which occupied the southern part of the
modern department of the Meuse, the greater part of the
Meurthe, and the department of the Vosges.
_Napoleon III.,
History of Cæsar,
book 3, chapter 2, footnote (volume 2)._
LEUCTRA, Battle of (B. C. 371).
See GREECE: B. C. 379-371.
LEUD, OR LIDUS, The.
See SLAVERY, MEDIÆVAL: GERMANY.