Chapter Leontes to Levites of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Leucippe, wife of Menippus; a bawd who caters for king Antigonus, who, although an old man, indulges in the amorous follies of a youth.—Fletcher: The Humorous Lieutenant (1647).

Leucippe, a rough Athenian soldier, in love with Myrinê, Pygmalion’s sister.—Gilbert: Pygmalion and Galatea (1871).

Leucothea, onc e called “Ino.” Athamas son of Ælus had by her two sons, one of whom was named Melicertês. Athamas being driven mad, Ino and Melicertês threw themselves into the sea; Ino became Leucothea, and Melicertês became Palæmon or Portumnus the god of ports or strands. Leucothea means the “white goddess,” and is used for “Matuta” or the dawn, which precedes sunrise, i.e. Aurora.

By Leucothea’s lovely hands,
And her son that rules the strands.
   —Milton: Comus, 875 (1634).

To resalute the world with sacred light,
Leucothea waked, and with fresh dews embalmed
The earth.
   —Milton: Paradise Lost, xi. 135 (1665).

Levant Wind (The), the east wind, from levant (“the sunrise”). Ponent is the west wind, or wind from the sunset.

Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds.
   —Milton: Paradise Lost, x. 704 (1665).

Leven (The earl of), a parliamentary leader.—Sir W. Scott: Legend of Montrose (time, Charles I.).

Leviathan (The), by Hobbes (1651). A political treatise in commendation of a universal commonwealth, both civil and ecclesiastical. (See Intellectual System, p. 525.)

Leviathan of Literature (The), Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709–1784).

Levites (The), in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, means the nonconformist ministers expelled by the Act of Conformity (1681-2).

Not Levites headed these [rebels]…
Resumed their cant, and with a zealous cry
Pursued their own beloved theocracy
With Sanhedrim [parliament] and priest enslaved the nation,
And justified their spoils by inspiration.
   —Part i. 520-526.