Asopus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Āsōpus (-os), i, m. (nom. Gr. Asopos, Stat. Th. 7, 315; acc. Gr. Asopon, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 33), = Ἀσωπός.

I A river in Boeotia; personified, the father of Aegina , Evadne , and Euboea , and grandfather of Aeacus (v. Asopis and Asopiades), Ov. Am. 3, 6, 33.—

II A river in Thessaly , Liv. 36, 22.—

III In Phrygia , Plin. 5, 29, 29, § 105

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