leukon

Some Editors, in order to bring the statement of Herodotus into agreement with the fact, read {leukon ti trigonon}, “a kind of white triangle”: so Stein.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

T.viii. p. 329: [Greek: metaballei de ho chamaileôn eis panta ta chrômata; plên ten eis to leukon kai to eruthron ou dechetai metabolên.]

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

[Greek: êdê leukon echonta karê polion te geneion thymon apopneiont 'alkimon en koniê].

The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 1877

Thus the Greek phrase leuke hemera, or leukon himar (AEschylus, Pers. 305), is commonly derived from a custom ascribed to the Scythians or Thracians, of indicating each happy day which they spent with a white stone placed in an urn, each unhappy with a black.

Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863