in Ancient Geography, a town of Euboea, over against Chalcis of Euboea, on the Euripus, where that strait is narrowest; and which was sometimes joined with Chalcis together by a mole or causeway, (Diodorus Siculus): a craggy situation, (Homer, Nonnius); and a village of the Tanagrei, (Strabo), distant from Chalcis three miles: A harbour famous for the rendezvous of the Grecian fleet under Agamemnon, previous to the Trojan expedition, (Livy, Virgil, Pliny). Now entirely destroyed.