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Onugnathus (Onou gnathos), the jaw of an ass, the name of a peninsula
and promontory in the south of Laconia, distant 200 stadia south of Asopus. It
is now entirely surrounded with water, and is called Elafonisi; but it is in reality
a peninsula, for the isthmus, by which it is connected with the mainland, is only
barely covered with water. It contains a harbour, which Strabo mentions; and Pausanias
saw a temple of Athena in ruins, and the sepulchre of Cinadus, the steersman of
Menelaus. (Paus. iii. 22. § 10, iii. 23. § 1; Strab. viii. pp. 363, 364; Curtius,
Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 295.)
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