Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), L, Leontium, Leuctrum

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Leuctrum

（Λεῦκτρον).

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A town of Messenia, on the coast, sixty stadia from Cardamyle (Pausan. iv. 26). In consequence of its frontier situation, it became a source of dispute between the Messenians and Laconians. Philip, the son of Amyntas, who acted as umpire, awarded the place to the Messenians. It is called Leuctra by Thucydides (v. 54) and Xenophon. The latter informs us it was situated above the promontory of Malea. It was said to have been founded by Pelops.

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A small town of Achaia, on the Sinus Corinthiacus, above Aegium, and in the vicinity of Rhypae, on which latter place it was dependent (Pausan. vii. 24).

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A town of Arcadia, below Megalopolis (Pausan. viii. 27).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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