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SIDON (Ancient city) LEBANON
Leontes (Leontos potamou ekbolai), a river of Phoenicia, placed by
Ptolemy between Berytus and Sidon (v. 15, p. 137) ; consistently with, which notice
Strabo places Leontopolis between the same two towns, the distance between which
he states at 400 stadia. He mentions no river of this name, but the Tamyras (ho
Tamuras potamos), the grove of Aesculapius, and Leontopolis, which would doubtless
correspond with the Lion river of Ptolemy; for it is obviously an error of Pliny
to place Leontos oppidum between Berytus and Flumen Lycos (v. 20). Now, as the
Tamyras of Strabo is clearlyidentical with Nalr-ed-Damur, half way between Beyrut
and Saida, Lion's town and river should be looked for south of this, and north
of Sidon. The only stream in this interval is Nahr-el-Auly, called also in its
upper part Nahr Baruk, which Dr. Robinson has shown to be the Bostrenus Fluvius.
This, therefore, Mannert seemed to have sufficient authority for identifying with
the Leontes. But the existence of the Litany--a name supposed to be similar to
the Leontes - between Sidon and Tyre, is thought to countenance the conjecture
that Ptolemy has misplaced the Leontes, which is in fact identical with the anonymous
river which Strabo mentions near Tyre, which can be no other than the Litany (Robinson,
Bib. Res. vol. iii. pp. 408 - 410, and notes). No great reliance, however, can
be placed on the similarity of names, as the form Leontos is merely the inflexion
of Leon, which was not likely to be adopted in Arabic. It is far more probable
that the classical geographer in this, as in other cases, translated the Semitic
name. Besides which the Litany does not retain this name to the coast, but is
here called Nahr-el-Kasimiyeh, the Casimeer of Maundrell (March 20, p. 48; Reland,
Palaestina, pp. 290, 291.)
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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