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Leuctra

Leuctra · n

A small town in Bæotia, where Epaminondas defeated the

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Where it lives

Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Leuctra — Lewis & Short

Leuctra, ōrum, n. (Leuctrae, ārum. f., *leu=ktra.

Sol. 7), =

I A small town in Bæotia, where Epaminondas defeated the Spartans, now the village of Leuca, with the ruins of Eremo-Castro (cf. Mann. Griechenland, p. 238), Cic. Tusc. 1, 46, 110; id. Off. 1, 18, 61: Lacedaemoniorum mala pugna in Leuctris, id. Div. 2, 25, 54.—Hence,

B Leuctrĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Leuctra, Leuctrian: pugna, Cic. Tusc. 1, 46, 110; v. supra: calamitas, id. Div. 1, 34, 74; id. Off. 2, 7 fin.—Cicero jestingly gives to the fray in which Milo killed Clodius the name of Leuctrica pugna (because Rome was thereby delivered from the yoke of Clodius, as Greece had been from that of the Spartans by the battle of Leuctra), Att. 6, 1, 26.—

II A small town in Laconica, now Leftro, Plin. 4, 5, 8, § 16.

In the wild

Leuctra Cornelius Nepos, Epaminondas 8
Leuctra Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.21.26
Leuctris Cicero, De Officiis 1.61.p1
Leuctra Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.110
Leuctra Cornelius Nepos, Agesilaus 6
Leuctra Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.5.p2

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