Hypsus

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

HYPSU´S(Ὑψοῦς,—οῦντος), a town of Arcadia, in the district Cynuria, situated upon a mountain of the same name, said to have been founded by Hypsus, a son of Lycaon. It is placed by the French Commission at Stemnítza. (Paus. 8.3.3, 35. §,7; Steph. B. s:v.;Boblaye, Recherches, &c. p. 161; Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 240.)