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CALYDON

Volume 3 · 45 words · 1778 Edition

(anc. geogr.), a town of Ætolia, situated seven miles and a half from the sea, and divided by the river Evenus: the country was anciently called Calydonia, from the Æolians its inhabitants. This country was famous for the story of Meleager and the Calydonian boar.