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  • From henceforth in the halls of Nereus shalt thou dwell with me, god and goddess together; thence shalt thou rise dry-shod from out the main and see Achilles, our dear son, settled in his island-home by the strand of Leuce, that is girdled by the Euxine sea.

    Andromache 2007

  • From henceforth in the halls of Nereus shalt thou dwell with me, god and goddess together; thence shalt thou rise dry-shod from out the main and see Achilles, our dear son, settled in his island-home by the strand of Leuce, that is girdled by the Euxine sea.

    Andromache 2007

  • In this kingdom of the Tauri lies the uninhabited island of Leuce, which is consecrated to Achilles; and if any ever visit it, as soon as they have examined the traces of antiquity, and the temple and offerings dedicated to the hero, they return the same evening to their ships, as it is said that no one can pass the night there without danger to his life.

    The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851

  • November, on Friday, the 24th day of the moon, Leuce erected

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • The "Notitiæ episcopatuum" of the tenth to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries mention Leuce among the suffragans of Philippopolis.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • India and Arabia, which was unloaded at Leuce Come, on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, whence it was transported via Petra to

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • The present lyric begins by wondering how and why the strangers have come: then come thoughts of the voyage and places they must have passed; the coast, where Phineus was haunted by the Harpies, the enchanted sea beyond the Symplegades, and the mysterious Isle of Leuce ( "White") where Achilles lives after death.

    The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides 480? BC-406 BC Euripides 1911

  • Between _Helen in Leuce_ and the Nine and Twenty Sonnets there lay the newly discovered, heavenly countries of the soul.

    The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

  • He could have told her that so it appeared to those who are bound in the house of bondage; but that in Leuce, the country of deliverance, the dream and the reality are indivisible, being both divine.

    The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

  • The incessant successful production of _Saturnalia_ would have been prejudicial to the interests of _The Museion_; a series of triumphant _Helens in Leuce_ would have turned Rickman aside for ever from the columns of

    The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

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