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ANTIRRHINUM

Volume 2 · 54 words · 1815 Edition

Snap-dragon, or Calves Snout. See Botany Index.

ANTIIRHNIUM, in Ancient Geography, a promontory at the mouth of the Corinthian bay, where it is scarce a mile broad, and where it separates Ætolia from the Peloponnesus; so called from its opposite situation to Rhium in Peloponnesus (Pliny): both are now called the Dardanelles of Lepanto.