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Amyrus

  Amyrus (Amuros: Eth. Amureus), a town in Thessaly, situated on a river of the same name falling into the lake Boebeis. It is mentioned by Hesiod as the vine-bearing Amyrus. The surrounding country is called the Amyric plain (to Amurikon pedion) by Polybius. Leake supposes the ruins at Kastri to represent Amyrus. (Hes. ap Strab. p. 442, and Steph. B. s. v.; Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. i. 596; Val. Flacc. ii. 11; Pol. v. 99; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 447.)

This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks

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