. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . e time ofStrabo (x. p. 479) at a distance of 80 stadia fromthe Libyan sea. (Strab. p. 476; comp. Steph. B.*. v.; Scyl. p. 18 ; Plin. iv. 12 ; Hesych. s. v. Kap-vqaaoiroXis ; Hierocl.) The site still bears thename of Lytto, where ancient remains are now found.(Pashley, Trav. vol. i. p. 269.) In the 16th cen-tury, the Venetian MS. (Mus. Class. Ant. vol. 274) describes the walls of the ancient city, withcircular bastions, and other fortifications, as existingupon a lofty mountain, nearly in the centre of theisland. Numerous vestiges of ancient str
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . e time ofStrabo (x. p. 479) at a distance of 80 stadia fromthe Libyan sea. (Strab. p. 476; comp. Steph. B.*. v.; Scyl. p. 18 ; Plin. iv. 12 ; Hesych. s. v. Kap-vqaaoiroXis ; Hierocl.) The site still bears thename of Lytto, where ancient remains are now found.(Pashley, Trav. vol. i. p. 269.) In the 16th cen-tury, the Venetian MS. (Mus. Class. Ant. vol. 274) describes the walls of the ancient city, withcircular bastions, and other fortifications, as existingupon a lofty mountain, nearly in the centre of theisland. Numerous vestiges of ancient structures,tombs, and broken marbles, are seen, as well as animmense arch of an aqueduct, by which the waterwas carried across a deep valley by means of a largemarble channel. The town of Arsdjoe and theharbour of Chersonesus are assigned to type on its coins is usually an eagle flying,with the epigraph ATTTIflN. (Eckhel, vol. ii. ;Hock, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 13, 408, vol. ii. ,446, vol. iii. pp. 430, 465, 508.) [E. B. J.]. COIS OF LYCTCS. LYCURIA (AvKovpia), a village in Arcadia,which still retails its ancient name, marked theboundaries of the Pheneatae and Cleitorii. ( 19. § 4 ; Leake, Morea, vol. iii. p. 143 ;Boblaye, Recherches, <fc. p. 156 ; Curtius, Pelo-ponnesos, vol. i. p. 198.) LTCUS. 227 LYCUS (Avkos), is the name of a great manyrivers, especially in Asia, and seems to have ori-ginated in the impression made upon the mind of thebeholder by a torrent rushing down the side of ahill, which suggested the idea of a wolf rushing athis prey. The following rivers of this name occurin Asia Minor: — 1. The Lycus of Bithynia: it flows in the east ofBithynia in a western direction, and empties itselfinto the Euxine a little to the south of HeracleiaPontica, which was twenty stadia distant from breadth of the river is stated to have been twoplethra, and the plain near its mouth bore the nameof Campus Lycaeus. (Scylax, p. 34; Orph. Ar-gon. 72
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