Leben
Λέβην
Leben (Λέβην, Strab. x. p.478) or LEBENA (Λέβηνα, Ptol. 3.17.4; Stadiasm.; Plin. Nat. 4.12; Λεβήνη, Paus. 2.26.7; Ledena, Peut. Tab.), a maritime town of Crete, which was a harbour of Gortyna, about 70 stadia inland. (Strab. l.c.) It possessed a temple of Asclepius, of great celebrity (Philostrat. Vit. Apollon. 9.11), and is represented by the modern hamlet of Léda. (Höck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 8, 394, 399.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.