(anc. geog.), formerly called Neritis and Neritum, a town of Leucadia or Leucas; situated near a narrow neck of land, or isthmus, on a hill facing the east and Acarnania: the foot or lower part of the town was a plain lying on the sea by which Leucadia was divided from Acarnania, (Livy); though Thucydides places Leucas more inward in the island, which was joined to the continent by a bridge. It was an illustrious city, the capital of Acarnania, and the place of general assembly.

LEUCATA or LEUCATE, (anc. geog.) a promontory of Leucadia according to Strabo, a white rock projecting into the sea towards Cephalenia, on which stood a temple of Apollo surnamed Leucadus. This place was famous for being the last resource of despairing lovers; from which they took a leap into the sea, as Sappho is said to have done.