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Volume 5 · 52 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), a town of Messenia, situated on the sea, giving name to the Sinus Coronæus, (Pilay): now Golfo di Caroni. Paulanias takes it to be the Aepea of Homer; but Strabo Thuria, and Pliny Pedias, now Caroni, in the territory of Belvidere, in the Morea. E. Long. 22, Lat. 36. 30.