LEUCOPETRA, (anc. geog.) so called from its white colour (Strabo); a promontory of the Bruttii, in the territory of Rhegium: the termination of the Apennine. The utmost extremity of the Bruttii, or the modern Calabria Ultra; as the Japygium is of the ancient Calabria, or the modern Calabria Citra.
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