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CHRYSAS

Volume 17 · 41 words · 1810 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a town of Mysia, on the river Adramytteus; extinct in Pliny's time: it had a temple of Apollo Smintheus, (Homer, Strabo). The country of the fair Chryseis, who gave first rise to the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles.