lepor

I recently read The Island by Victoria Hislop, which is about a lepor colony on an island called Spinalonga.

The Sanctuary of Outcasts (copy) ____Maggie 2009

[57] _Labos_, a rarer form for _labor_, as _honos_ and _lepos_, which are even more frequently found than _honor_ and _lepor_.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

In the lighter poets it passes too easily into an ideal of mere cleverness: until with Ovid (and in a less degree Martial) lepor is the whole man.

Introduction 1912