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DREPANE

Volume 6 · 41 words · 1797 Edition

the ancient name of Corcyra, from the curvity of its figure, resembling a sickle.

Drepanum, (anc. geog.), a town of Bithynia, situated between the Sinus Aftacenus and the Bosphorus Thraciens; called Helenopolis by Constantine, in honour of his mother Nicephorus Callistus.