Ophiusa

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

OPHIUSA, OPHIUSSA.

1. [TYRAS]


2. An island off the coast of Crete (Plin. Nat. 4.20), which is probably represented by Gavdapouloor Anti-Gozzo, unless it be the same as the OXEIA INS.(Ὀξλτ;γτ;ῖα, Stadiasm. 321), which the anonymous Coast-describer places near Leben. [E.B.J]

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