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LIMYRA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Limyrus (ho Limuros), a river on the south coast of Lycia, which,
after receiving the waters of its tributary Arycandus (Fineka), becomes navigable
at the point where Limyra is situated. It falls into the sea, at a distance of
90 stadia west of the holy promontory, and 60 stadia from Melanippe. (Scyl. p.
39; Strab. xiv. p. 666; Ptol. v. 3. § 3.) Pliny (v. 28) and Mela (i. 15) call
the river Limyra, and the Stadiasmus Maris Magni ( § 211) Almyrus, which is no
doubt a mistake. Leake (Asia Minor, p. 187) states that both the Limyrus and the
Arycandus reach the sea at no great distance from each other; while in the map
of Lycia by Spratt, the Limyrus is the smaller river, and a tributary to the Arycandus.
Both these statements are opposed to the testimony of Pliny, whose words are:
Limyra cum amne in quem Arycandus influit.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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