ASOPUS, a river of Phrygia Major, which, together with the Lycus, washes Laodicea, (Pliny).—Another of Boeotia, which running from mount Citheron, and watering the territory of Thebes, separates it from the territory of Platea, and falls with an east course into the Euripus, at Tanagra. On this river Adrallus king of Sicyon built a temple to Nemesis, thence called Adrasleia. From this river Thebes came to be furnished Asopides, (Strabo). It is now called Asopo.
A third Asopus, a river of Peloponnesus, which runs by Sicyon, (Strabo); and with a north-west course falls into the Sinus Corinthicus, to the west of Corinth.—A fourth, a small river of the Locri Epinemidii, on the borders of Thessaly, (Pliny); rising in Mount Oeta, and falling into the Sinus Malicus.
Asopus, a town of Laconica, (Pausanias); on the Sinus Laconicus, with a port in a peninsula, between Boe to the east, and the mouth of the Eurotas to the west. The citadel only remains standing, now called by the sailors Castel Rampano.