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ASOPUS

Volume 2 · 166 words · 1815 Edition

a river of Phrygia Major, which, together with the Lycus, washes Laodicea, (Pliny).—Another of Boeotia, which running from Mount Citharon, and watering the territory of Thebes, separates it from the territory of Platea, and falls with an east course into the Euripus, at Tanagra. On this river Adrastus king of Sicyon built a temple to Nemesis, thence called Adrasteia. From this river Thebes came to be named Apopites, (Strabo). It is now called Aopo. A third Alopus, a river of Peloponnesus, which runs by Sicyon, (Strabo); and with a north-west course falls into the Sinus Corinthiacus, to the west of Corinth.—A fourth, a small river of the Locri Epizephiri, on the borders of Thessaly, (Pliny); rising in Mount Oeta, and falling into the Sinus Malacius.

a town of Laconia, (Pausanias) on the Sinus Laconicus, with a port in a peninsula, between Boe to the east, and the mouth of the Eurotas to the west. The citadel only remains standing, now called by the sailors Castel Rampono.