place
Leucas
also: Leucas, Leucade, Leucadem
An island and town off the coast of Acarnania in western Greece, a stage on Cicero's homeward route from Cilicia in 50 BC.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 16.1 §2 you will catch us at Leucas
Leucas, an island town off Acarnania, was the next stage on Cicero's homeward sea route; Tiro could rejoin the party there if he sailed at once.
- Ad Familiares 16.9 §1 We reached Leucas
Leucas, an island off western Greece; the section is a day-by-day log of the homeward voyage from Cilicia, naming each port in turn.
- Tusculan Disputations §4.41 a man who had flung himself from Leucate
The white cliff of Leucas (Leucate), proverbial as a leap from which there was no turning back; lovers were said to throw themselves from it. The image shows that a passion once begun cannot be checked at will.