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ABSORUS

Volume 2 · 33 words · 1860 Edition

Absorbus, Absyrtus, Absyrtides, (Strabo, Mela, Ptolemy), islands in the Adriatic, in the gulf of Carnero; said to be so called from Absyrtus, Medea's brother, there slain. They are now called Cherso and Osero.