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Leucothea

Leucothea · f

The name of Ino, daughter of Cadmus, after she was received among the sea-gods; afterwards confounded with the Italian…

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Leucŏthĕa — Lewis & Short

Leucŏthĕa, ae, and Leucŏthĕē, ēs, f., = *leukoqe/h.

I The name of Ino, daughter of Cadmus, after she was received among the sea-gods; afterwards confounded with the Italian goddess Matuta: Leucotheë Graiis Matuta vocabare nostris, Ov. F. 6, 545; so, Leucothee (others Leucothea), id. M. 4, 542: Ino Leucothea nominata a Graecis; Matuta habetur a nostris, Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; id. N. D. 3, 15, 39; 3, 19, 48.—In Stat. Th. 9, 402, identical with Aurora.—

II Another name for Leucosia, v. h. v.—

III A fountain in the island of Samos, Plin. 5, 31, 37, § 135.

In the wild

Leucothea Ovid, Ex Ponto 3.6.20
Leucothea Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 396
Leucotheam Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.39.p2
Leucothea Ovid, Fasti 6.545
Leucothea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.31.p4
Leucothea Ovid, Fasti 6.501

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