Location information

Scolus

OLYNTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A hamlet in Macedonia near Olynthus

Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
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And there was another Scolus among the cities in the neighborhood of Olynthus bearing the same name as this village.(Strabo 9.2.3)

Perseus: Strabo, Geography
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Cantharolethros

Kantharolethros (death to beetles), a place in Thrace near Olynthus

Perseus: Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary(1879)
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Near Olynthus is a hollow place which is called Cantharolethron from what happens there; for when the insect called the Cantharos, which is found all over the country, touches that place, it dies.(Strabo 7.30)

Perseus: Strabo, Geography
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