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A river of Achaea flowing into the Corinthian Gulf near Sicyon.
Asopus. River of St. George, a river of Peloponnesus, rising in the mountains S. of Phlius, and flowing through Sicyonia into the Corinthian gulf. Hence the plain of Sicyonia was called Asopis or Asopia. Its principal sources are at the foot of Mt. Gavria. In the upper part of its course it is a clear tranquil stream, but in passing through Sicyonia it becomes rapid, white, and turbid. It flows past the city of Sicyon on the east, and joins the sea a little eastward of a round height in the plain. (Strab. vii., viii., ix.; Paus. ii. 5.2, 15.1; Plin. iv. 5. s. 6)
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
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