Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . tedupon a hill, at the foot of which is the village ofJ^ykurio. 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. § 10; Leake, Morea,vol. ii. p. 419; Boblaye, lieckerckes, cfc. p. 53 jCurtius, Pcloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 418.) LESTADAE. [Naxos.] LESUIIA, a branch of the Jlosella {MoseT), men-tioned by Ausonius {Mosella, v. 365). He calls it exilis, a poor, ill-fed stream. The resemblanceof name leads us to conclude that it is the Leser orLlsse,
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . tedupon a hill, at the foot of which is the village ofJ^ykurio. 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. § 10; Leake, Morea,vol. ii. p. 419; Boblaye, lieckerckes, cfc. p. 53 jCurtius, Pcloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 418.) LESTADAE. [Naxos.] LESUIIA, a branch of the Jlosella {MoseT), men-tioned by Ausonius {Mosella, v. 365). He calls it exilis, a poor, ill-fed stream. The resemblanceof name leads us to conclude that it is the Leser orLlsse, which flows past Wittlich, and joins the Moselon the left bank. [G. L.] LETANDROS, a small Lsland in the Aegaeansea, near Amorgos, mentioned only by Pliny ( s. 23). LETE (ArjTTi: Eili. Ar)Ta7os\ a town of Mace-donia, which Stephanus B. asserts to have been thenative city of Xearclnis, the admiral of Alexanderthe Great; but in this he is certainly mistaken, asNearchus was a Cretan. (Comp. Arrian, Inch 18;Diod. six. 19.) [E. B. J.]. COIN OF LETE. LETHAEUS (Aveah?, Strab. x. p. 478 ; 17. § 4 ; Enstath. ad Horn. II. ii. 646 ; ; Vib. Seq. 13), the large and important riverwhich watered the plain of Gortyna in Crete, nowtiie Malogniti. [E. B. J.] LETHAEUS (ATjOaros), a small river of Caria,which has its sources in Mount Pactyes, and after ashort course from north to south discharges itselfinto the BLacander, a little to the south-east of Mag-nesia. (Strab. xii. p. 554, xiv. p. 647 : Athen. 683.) ArvmAtW (^Seven Churclies, p. 57) describesthe river which he identifies with the ancient Le-thaeus, as a torrent rushing along over rocky ground,and forming many waterfalls. [L. S.] LETHES FL. [Gallaecia.] LETOPOLIS (ArjToCj irjAt?, Ptol. iv. 5. § 46;At)Tovs, Steph. B. s. v.; Letus, Itin. Anton, p. 156:Etli. A77T07roAtT7)s), a town in Lower Egypt, nearthe apex of the Delta, the chief of the nome Leto-jiolites, but with it belonging to the nomos or pre-fectur
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