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ACHILLEUS CURSUS

Volume 2 · 56 words · 1860 Edition

in that part from Paris, the son of Priam.(Αχιλλεος Σπονδαι), in Ancient Geography, a narrow tongue of land near the mouth of the Borysthenes, where Achilles is said to have instituted races. Opposite to it was the celebrated Achilleus Insula, or Leuce (Serpent's Isle), with a temple sacred to that hero. Eurip. Iphig. in Taur. 438.