Leukas:
Loviste.
The northern-side cliffs at the westernmost tip of the Peljesac peninsula....
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Meanwhile Cyllenian Hermes called forth the spirits of the wooers.
He held in his hands his wand, a fair wand of gold, wherewith
he lulls to sleep the eyes of whom he will, while others again
he wakens even out of slumber; with this he roused and led the
spirits, and they followed gibbering. And as in the innermost
recess of a wondrous cave bats flit about gibbering, when one
has fallen from off the rock from the chain in which they cling
to one another, so these went with him gibbering, and Hermes,
the Helper, led them down the dank ways. Past the streams of
Oceanus they went, past the rock Leucas, past the gates of the
sun and the land of dreams, and quickly came to the mead of
asphodel, where the spirits dwell, phantoms of men who have
done with toils.
The Greek
understanding of the name Leukas is that of 'White Cape', certainly
à propos of the whitish cliffs of Loviste, though an Illyrian
understanding, from a root lev-, > Lat. levis, certainly again
à propos of the souls of Penelope's wooers like gibbering
bats, as well as Sb-Cro. lov, pursuit, hunt, chase, loviste, hunting-ground,
preserve, certainly also à propos of Hermes rounding-up
and taking away the souls of Penelope's wooerslike gibbering bats.
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