Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . the strong currents,and the fierce gales which they there the temple of Apollo nothing but the sub-structions now exist. At the annual festival ofthe god here celebrated it was the custom to throwa criminal from the cape into the sea; to break hisfall, birds of all kinds were attaclied to him, and ifhe reached the sea uninjured, boats were ready topick him up. (Strab. s. p. 452; xv. 165,seq., Trist. v. 2. 76; Cic. Tusc. iv. 18.) Thisappears to have been an expiatory rite, and is sup-posed by most modern scholars to have given rise
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . the strong currents,and the fierce gales which they there the temple of Apollo nothing but the sub-structions now exist. At the annual festival ofthe god here celebrated it was the custom to throwa criminal from the cape into the sea; to break hisfall, birds of all kinds were attaclied to him, and ifhe reached the sea uninjured, boats were ready topick him up. (Strab. s. p. 452; xv. 165,seq., Trist. v. 2. 76; Cic. Tusc. iv. 18.) Thisappears to have been an expiatory rite, and is sup-posed by most modern scholars to have given rise tothe well-known story of Sapphos leap from thisrock in order to seek relief from the pangs of love.[See Diet, of Biogr. Vol. III. p. 708.] Col. Mure,however, is disposed to consider Sapphos leap as anhistorical fact. {History of the Literature ofGreece, vol. iii. p. 285.) Many other persons arereported to have followed Sapphos example, amongwhom the most celebrated was Artemisia of llali-carnassus, the ally of Xerxes, in his invasion of. COIN OF LEUCAS. LEUCI MONTES. Greece. (Ptolera. Heph. ap. Phot. Cod. 190. p. 153,a., cd. Bekker.) (Leake, North. Greece, vol. iii. p. 10, seq.; Bowen,Handhook for Travellers in Greece, p. 75, seq.) LEUCASIA. [Messenia.] LEUCASIUM. [Akcadia, p. 193, No. 15.] LEUCATA, a part of the coast of Gallia Nar-bonensis: ultra (lacum Rubresum) est Leucata,littoris nomen, et Salsulae Fons (Mela, ii. 5). Melaseems to mean that there is a jtlace Leucata, andthat part of the coast is also called Leucata. Thiscoast, according to DAnville, is thaf, part south ofNarbonne, which lies between the Etang de Sigeanand Salses. He conjectures, as De had done,that the name may be Greek. He quotes Roger deHoveden, who speaks of this coast under the nameLeucate : quandam arenam protensam in mari,quae dicitur caput Leucate. The common name ofthis head is now Cap de la Franqui, which is thename of a small fiat island, situated in the recess ofthe coast to the north
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