leucogaeus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

leucŏgaeus, a, um, adj., = λευκόγαιος,

of white earth : colles, a chain of hills in Campania, where chalk was dug , Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 114; 35, 15, 56, § 174.—Here were the leucogaei fontes, Plin. 31, 2, 8, § 12.