Λευκανούς (Leukanous)

Λευκανούς is an Ancient Greek form of Λευκανοὶ, meaning “Leukanoi — a province or district of Southern Italy, extending across from the Tyrrhenian sea to the gulf…”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Timoleon 34.3: Μάμερκος δὲ δυσθυμῶν ταῖς ἐλπίσιν ἔπλει μέν εἰς Ἰταλίαν ὡς Λευκανοὺς ἐπάξων Τιμολέοντι καὶ Συρακουσίοις, ἐπεὶ δὲ ἀποστρέψαντες οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ τὰς τριήρεις καὶ πλεύσαντες εἰς Σικελία …

Plutarch, Sulla 29.4: … μὴ κατακόπους ἔχοντα τοὺς ἄνδρας ἀποκινδυνεῦσαι περὶ τῶν ἐσχάτων οὐ γὰρ Κάρβωνα καὶ Μάριον, ἀλλὰ Σαυνίτας καὶ Λευκανούς, τὰ ἔχθιστα τῇ Ῥώμῃ καὶ τὰ πολεμικώτατα φῦλα, συμφέρεσθαι, παρωσάμενος αὐτοὺς ἐκέλευσε σημαίνειν τὰς σάλπιγγα …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.