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Asopus river

PAROS (Island) KYKLADES
There is also an Asopus that flows past Thebes and Plataea and Tanagra, and there is another in the Trachinian Heracleia that flows past a village which they call Parasopii, and there is a fourth in Paros. (Strabo 8,6,24)

Perseus: Strabo, Geography

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Marpessa (Marpessus, Marpesus, Marpesos)

A mountain in Paros, from which the celebrated Parian marble was obtained. Hence Vergil speaks of Marpesia cautes

Perseus: Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary(1879)

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Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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