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ARGILOS (Ancient city) SERRES
Argilus (Argilos: Eth. Argilios), a city of Macedonia in the district
Bisaltia, between Amphipolis and Bromiscus. It was founded by a colony from Andros.
(Thuc. iv. 103.) It appears from Herodotus (vii. 115) to have been a little to
the right of the route of the army of Xerxes, and must therefore have been situated
a little inland. Its territory must have been extended as far as the right bank
of the Strymon, since Cerdylium, the mountain immediately opposite Amphipolis,
belonged to Argilus. (Thuc. v. 6.) The Argilians readily joined Brasidas in B.C.
424, on account of their jealousy of the important city of Amphipolis, which the
Athenians had founded in their neighbourhood. (Thuc. iv. 103; comp. Steph. B.
s. v.; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. , p. 171.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Total results on 27/8/2001: 14 for Argilus, 8 for Argilos.
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