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Island off Syracuse.
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Anapus (Anapos). (Anapo), one of the most celebrated and considerable
rivers of Sicily, which risesabout a mile from the modern town of Buscemi, not
far from the site of Acrae; and flows into the great harbour of Syracuse. About
three quarters of a mile from its mouth, and just at the foot of the hill on which
stood the Olympieium, it receives the waters of the Cyane. Its banks for a considerable
distance from its mouth are bordered by marshes, which rendered them at all times
unhealthy; and the fevers and pestilence thus generated were among the chief causes
of disaster to the Athenians, and still more to the Carthaginians, during the
several sieges of Syracuse. But above these marshes the valley through which it
flows is one of great beauty, and the waters of the Anapus itself are extremely
limpid and clear, and of great depth. Like many rivers in a limestone country
it rises all at once with a considerable volume of water, which is, however, nearly
doubled by the accession of the Cyane. The tutelary divinity of the stream was
worshipped by the Syracusans under the form of a young man (Ael. V. H. ii. 33),
who was regarded as the husband of the nymph Cyane. (Ovid. Met. v. 416.) The river
is now commonly known as the Alfeo, evidently from a misconception of the story
of Alpheus and Arethusa; but is also called and marked on all maps as the Anapo.
(Thuc. vi. 96, vii. 78; Theocr. i. 68; Plut. Dion. 27, Timol. 21; Liv. xxiv. 36;
Ovid. Ex Pont. ii. 26; Vib. Seq. p. 4; Oberlin, ad loc.; Fazell. iv. 1, p. 196.)
It is probable that the Palus Lysimeleia (he limne he Lusimeleia kaloumene)
mentioned by Thucydides (vii. 53), was a part of the marshes formed by the Anapus
near its mouth. A marshy or stagnant pool of some extent still exists between
the site of the Neapolis of Syracuse and the mouth of the river, to which the
name may with some probability be assigned.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Asinarus or Assinarus (Asinaros, Diod. Plut. Assinaros, Thuc.), a small river on the E. coast of Sicily, between Syracuse and Helorus; memorable as the scene of the final catastrophe of the Athenian armament in Sicily, and the surrender of Nicias with the remains of his division of the army. (Thuc. vii. 84, 85; Diod. xiii. 19; Plut. Nic. 27.) It is clearly identified by the circumstances of the retreat (as related in detail by Thucydides), with the river now called the Falconara, but more commonly known as the Fiume di Noto, from its proximity to that city. It rises just below the site of the ancient Neetum (Noto Vecohio), and after flowing under the walls of the modern Noto, enters the sea in a little bay called Ballata di Noto, about 4 miles N. of the mouth of the Helorus (F. Abisso). Being supplied from several subterranean and perennial sources it has a considerable body of water, as described by Thucydides in the above passage. A curious monument still extant near Helorum is commonly supposed to have been erected to commemorate the victory of the Syracusans on this occasion; but it seems too far from the river to have been designed for such an object. Plutarch tells us (Nic. 28), that the Syracusans instituted on the occasion a festival called Asinaria; and it is said that this is still celebrated at the present day, though now converted to the honour of a saint. (Smyth's Sicily, p. 179; Fazell. de Reb. Sic. iv. 1. p. 198; Cluver. Sicil. p. 184.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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