Lete (Mygdonia)

Lete is known by its coins and inscriptions, mentioned in Ptolemy (III, xiii), the Pliny the Younger (IV, x, 17), Harpocration, Stephanus Byzantius and Suidas in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages in Nicephorus Bryennius (IV, xix).

According to Theagenes's Macedonica the town was named after the Greek goddess Leto, who was worshipped in a sanctuary near Lete.

[1] Marsyas of Philippi mentions it many times in book 6 of Makedonika (Ancient Greek: Μακεδονικά).

Lete appears in some Notitiæ episcopatuum of a late period as suffragan of the Archbishopric of Thessalonica, later united to the See of Rentina.

Lete and Rentina even had Greek (Orthodox) bishops until the eighteenth century.