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Λευκανῶν (Leukanon)

Λευκανῶν 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 genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 13.6: δυνάμεις δὲ αὐτόθεν ὑπάρξουσι μεγάλαι παρά τε Λευκανῶν καὶ Μεσσαπίων καὶ Σαυνιτῶν καὶ Ταραντίνων εἷς δισμυρίους ἱππεῖς, πεζῶν δὲ ὁμοῦ πέντε καὶ τριάκοντα μυριάδας. …

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.