ASOPUS, a river of Phrygia Major, which, together with the Lycus, washes Laodicea, (Pliny).—Another of Boeotia, which running from Mount Cithæron, 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 Adrastus king of Sicyon built a temple to Nemesis, thence called Adraſteia. 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 Epicnemidii, on the borders of Thessaly, (Pliny); rising in Mount Oeta, and falling into the Sinus Malicus.