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Lesura

Lesura a branch of the Mosella (Mosel), mentioned by Ausonius (Mosella, 5.365). He calls it exilis, a poor, ill-fed stream. The resemblance of name leads us to conclude that it is the Leser or Lisse, which flows past Wittlich, and joins the Mosel on the left bank.

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.