LEUCAE
LEUCAE (
Λεῦκαι), a town of Laconia situated at the northern extremity of the plain Leuce, now called
Phiniki, which extended inland between Acriae and Asopus on the eastern side of the Laconian gulf. (
Plb. 5.19;
Liv. 35.27;
Strab. viii. p.363; Leake,
Morea, vol. i. p. 226, seq.; Boblaye,
Récherches, &c. p. 95; Curtius,
Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 290.)