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Volume 11 · 47 words · 1823 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a river of Mysia Minor, famous for Hylas the favourite boy of Hercules, who was carried down the stream and drowned. It is said to run by Prusa; whence it seems to be the same with the Rhindacus, which runs north-west into the Propontis.