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History Lete is known by its coins and inscriptions, mentioned in Ptolemy (III, xiii), the Pliny the Younger (IV, x, 17), Harpocration, Stephanus Byzantius (of Byzantium) and Suidas in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages in Nicephorus Bryennius (IV, xix). The spelling "Lite" is incorrect and comes from iotacism. Stephanus of Byzantium asserts to have been the native city of Nearchus, the admiral of Alexander the Great; although he was from Crete, but his family settled at Amphipolis in Macedonia at some point during Philip’s reign In its necropolis was found the Derveni papyrus. The papyrus is kept in the Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum.
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. Lete became the small village of Aïvati (1000 inhabitants) situated a little north of Salonica. Lete is a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Macedonia. The village Liti in the municipality of Mygdonia is named after Lete
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