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Copais (Kopais limne). Alake in Boeotia, formed chiefly by the river Cephissus, whose waters were connected with the Euboean Sea by several subterranean channels, called by the modern Greeks katavothra, which were not, however, sufficient to carry off the waters, especially in the spring when the Copaic plain was flooded by the rains. In the time of Alexander the Great an enormous tunnel was cut through the rock for the discharge of the water. (See Emissarium.) This proved effective until it fell into ruins, when the district again became unwholesome and marshy. In 1886, however, it was once more properly drained by a French company. The modern name of the lake is Topolias; its Homeric name, Cephisis (Limne Kephisis, Il.v. 709). Its eels were much prized in antiquity.
Sidae (Sidai), a place in Boeotia, celebrated for its pomegranates.
Hence the Boeotians called this fruit side, though the more usual name was rhoia.
As the Athenians are said to have contended with the Boeotians for the possession
of the place, it must have been upon the borders of Attica, but its exact site
is unknown. (Athen. xiv. pp. 650, 651.)
Ismenius. A son of Apollo and Melia, who is said to have given his name to the Boeotian river which was before called Ladon or Cadmus. (Hesych. s. v.; Paus. ix. 10. Β 5.)
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