Leandrias, a Lacedæmonian refugee of Thebes, who declared, according to an ancient oracle, that Sparta would lose the superiority over Greece when conquered by the Thebans at Leuctra. Diodorus, bk. 15.
Leanira, a daughter of Amyclas. See: [Leandre].
Learchus, a son of Athamas and Ino, crushed to death against a wall by his father, in a fit of madness. See: [Athamas]. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 6, li. 490.
Lebădēa, now Lioadias, a town of Bœotia, near mount Helicon. It received this name from the mother of Aspledon, and became famous for the oracle and cave of Trophonius. No moles could live there, according to Pliny. Strabo, bk. 9.—Pliny, bk. 16, ch. 36.—Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 59.
Lebĕdus, or Lebĕdos, a town of Ionia, at the north of Colophon, where festivals were yearly observed in honour of Bacchus, and where Trophonius had a cave and a temple. Lysimachus destroyed it, and carried part of the inhabitants to Ephesus. It had been founded by an Athenian colony, under one of the sons of Codrus. Strabo, bk. 14.—Horace, bk. 1, ltr. 11, li. 7.—Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 142.—Cicero, bk. 1, Divination, ch. 33.
Lebēna, a commercial town of Crete, with a temple sacred to Æsculapius. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 26.
Lĕbinthos and Lebynthos, an island in the Ægean sea, near Patmos. Strabo, bk. 10.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 8, li. 222.
Lechæum, now Pelago, a port of Corinth in the bay of Corinth. Statius, Thebiad, bk. 2, li. 381.—Livy, bk. 32, ch. 23.
Lectum, a promontory, now cape Baba, separating Troas from Æolia. Livy, bk. 37, ch. 37.
Lecythus, a town of Eubœa.