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DREPANE

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

(Drepanium,) in Ancient Geography, a town of Bithynia, situated between the Sinus Aftacenus and the Bosphorus Thracius; called Helenopolis by Constantine, in honour of his mother (Nicephorus Callistus).