ASOPUS, a river of Phrygia Major, which, together with the Lycus, washes Laodicea, (Pliny).—Another of Bæotia, which running from Mount Cithæron, and watering the territory of Thebes, separates it from the territory of Platæa, and falls with an east course into the Euripus, at Tanagra. On this river Adrastus king of Sicyon built a temple to Nemesis, thence called Adrasteia. From this river Thebes came to be surnamed 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 Epicnemidii, on the borders of Thessaly, (Pliny); rising in Mount Oeta, and falling into the Sinus Maliacus.