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LETE

LETE (Λήτη: Eth. Ληταῖος), a town of Macedonia, which Stephanus B. asserts to have been the native city of Nearchus, the admiral of Alexander the Great; but in this he is certainly mistaken, as Nearchus was a Cretan. (Comp. Arrian Ind. 18; Diod. 19.19.)

COIN OF LETE.

[E.B.J]

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