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NAUPACTUS

Volume 7 · 69 words · 1778 Edition

or Naupactum, (anc. geogr.), the extreme or outmost town of the Aetolians, formerly belonging to the Locrians, but adjudged by Philip to the former; so called from the shipbuilding there carried on, and situated near Antirrhium on the Corinthian bay. Naupactus, the epithet. Now Leptanto, a port-town of Achaia or Livadia, on the north side of the gulf of that name. E. Long. 22° 20'. N. Lat. 38° 0'.