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Lelantus Campus

  Lelantus Campus (to Lelanton pedion), a fertile plain in Euboea, between Chalcis and Eretria, which was an object of frequent contention between those cities. It was the subject of volcanic action. Strabo relates that on one occasion a torrent of hot mud issued from it ; and it contained some warm springs, which were used by the dictator Sulla. The plain was also celebrated for its vineyards ; and in it there were mines of copper and iron. (Strab. i. p. 58, x. p. 447, seq.; Hon. Hymn. in Apoll. 219 ; Theogn. 888; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 265.) Pliny mentions a river Lelantus in Euboea, which must have flowed through this plain, if it really existed. (Plin. iv. 12. s. 21.)

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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