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Boibe: (Eth. Boibeus, fem. Boibeis), a town of Magnesia in Thessaly,
mentioned by Homer, and situated on the eastern side of the lake, called after
it Boebeis Lacus (Boibeis limne, Horn. Il. ii. 712; Herod. vii. 129, et alii;
also Boibia limne, Eurip. Alc. 590; and Boibias, Pind. Pyth. iii. 34.) The lake
is frequently mentioned by the ancient writers, but the name of the town rarely
occurs. The lake receives the rivers Onchestus, Amyrus, and several smaller streams,
but has no outlet for its waters. From its proximity to Mt. Ossa, it is called
Ossaea Boebeis by Lucan (vii. 176). Athena is said to have bathed her feet in
its waters (Hes. ap. Strab. ix. p. 442), which is perhaps the reason why Propertius
(ii. 2. 11) speaks of sanctae Boebeidos undae. The lake is a long narrow piece
of water, and is now called Karla from a village which has disappeared. It produces
at present a large quantity of fish, of which no mention is made in the ancient
writers, unless, as Leake suggests, Boibe should be substituted for Bolbe in a
fragment of Archestratus quoted by Athenaeus (vii. p. 311, a.). The same writer
remarks that the numerous flocks on the heights around the villages of Kaprena
and Kanalia on the lake illustrate the epithet polumelotate bestowed upon Boebe
by Euripides; while the precipitous rocks of Petra are probably the Boibiados
kremnoi alluded to by Pindar.
The town of Boebe was at a later time dependent upon Demetrias. Its
site and remains are described by Leake. It occupied a height advanced in front
of the mountain [of Kanulia], sloping gradually towards the plain, and defended
by a steep fall at the back of the hill. It appears to have been constructed of
Hellenic masonry, properly so called. The acropolis may be traced on the summit,
where several large quadrangular blocks of stones are still in their places, among
more considerable ruins formed of small stones and mortar. Of the town walls there
are some remains at a small church dedicated to St. Athanasius at the foot of
the hill, where are several large masses of stone showing, by their distance from
the acropolis, that the city was not less than two miles in circumference.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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