Metaxas Square , Nicosia

' Letra , an ancient city , but it is not known who first founded it : it was afterwards restored by Leucico or Leuco , son of the first Ptolemy , King of Egypt , who called it Leucoton . This is Nicosia , which is an ancient city , but it is not exactly known who first built it , and when . It is evident that it is ancient , S. Jerome and Platina and others call it Letra or Leucoton , naming a Bishop S. Trifillus - Trifillus of Letra in Cyprus , Leucoton . The Latins now call it Nicosia , but the Greeks Leucosia : and some say that Leuco and Sia his wife built it , and in olden days traces of it were visible . '

Description of Nicosia and Famagusta Chorographia (1573)