Leuce

, a small island in the Euxine sea, of a triangular form, between the mouths of the Danube and the Borysthenes. According to the poets, the souls of the ancient heroes were placed there as in the Elysian fields, where they enjoyed perpetual felicity, and reaped the repose to which their benevolence to mankind, and their exploits during life, seemed to entitle them. From that circumstance it has often been called the island of the ble ed, . According to some accounts Achilles celebrated there his nuptials with Iphigenia, or rather Helen, and shared the pleasures of the place with the manes of Ajax, . Strabo , bk. 2 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 7 .— Ammianus , bk. 22 .— Quintus Calaber [Smyrnæus] , bk. 2 , li. 773 .――One of the Oceanides whom Pluto carried into his kingdom.