. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . on a hill, at the foot of which is the village On the outside of the walls, near thefoot of the mountain, are the remains of an ancientpyramid, near a church, which contains some Ioniccolumns. (Pans. ii. 25. § 10; Leake, Morea,vol. ii. p. 419; lSohlaye, Recherches, $c. p. 53;Curtius, Peloponnesus, vol. ii. p. 418.) LESTADAK. [Naxos.] LESUEA, a branch of the Mosclla (MoseT), men-tioned by Ausoniua (MoseUa, v. 365). He calls it exilis, a poor, ill-fed stream. The resemblanceof name leads us to conclude that it is the Leser orLisse, which il
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . on a hill, at the foot of which is the village On the outside of the walls, near thefoot of the mountain, are the remains of an ancientpyramid, near a church, which contains some Ioniccolumns. (Pans. ii. 25. § 10; Leake, Morea,vol. ii. p. 419; lSohlaye, Recherches, $c. p. 53;Curtius, Peloponnesus, vol. ii. p. 418.) LESTADAK. [Naxos.] LESUEA, a branch of the Mosclla (MoseT), men-tioned by Ausoniua (MoseUa, v. 365). He calls it exilis, a poor, ill-fed stream. The resemblanceof name leads us to conclude that it is the Leser orLisse, which ilows past Wittlich, and joins the Moselon the left bank. [G. L.] LETAXDROS, a small island in the Aegaeansea, near Amorgos, mentioned only by Pliny ( s. 23). LETE (ArjTTj: Eih. Atjtcuos), a town of Mace-donia, which Stephanus B. asserts to have been thenative city of Xearchus, the admiral of Alexandertlu- Great; but in this he is certainly mistaken, asXearchus was a Cretan. (Comp. Arrian, Jnd. 18;Diod. six. 19.) [E. B. J.] LEUCA. 1G7. COIN OF LETE. LETIIAEUS (Avdalos, Strab. x. p. 478 ; 17. § 4 ; Eustath. ad Hum. II. ii. 646 ; ; Vib. Seq. 13), the large and important riverwhich watered the plain of Gortyna in Crete, nowthe Malogniti. [E. B. J.] LETHAEUS {ArjQcuos), a small river of Caria,which has its sources in Mount Pactyes, and after ashort course from north to south discharges itselfinto the Maeander, a little to the south-east of Mag-nesia. (Strab. xii. p. 554, xiv. p. 647 ; Athen. 683.) Arundell {Seven Churches, p. 57) describesthe river which he identifies with the ancient Le-thaous,as a torrent rushing along over rocky ground,ami forming many waterfalls. [L. S.] LETHES FL. [Gallaecia.] LETOPOLIS (AtjtoCs iroKts, Ptol. iv. 5. § 46;AijtoDs, Stepli. B. s. v.; Letus, Itin. Anton, p. 156:Eih. A7jT07roAiT7]s), a town in Lower Egypt, nearthe apex of the Delta, the chief of the nome Leto-polites, but with it belonging to the nomos or pre-fecture
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