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ASOPUS

Volume 2 · 165 words · 1823 Edition

a river of Phrygia Major, which, together with the Lycus, washes Laodicea (Pliny).—Another of Bucotia, which running from Mount Citheron, and watering the territory of Thebes, separates it from the territory of Platsea, 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 Adrustea. From this river Thebes came to be surnamed Asopides, (Strabo). It is now called Asopo. A third Asopus, 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 Epicnemidi, on the borders of Thessaly, (Pliny); rising in Mount Oeta, and falling into the Sinus Maliacus.

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 Rompano.