Location information

Ascuris lake & Lapathus castle

RAPSANI (Small town) TYRNAVOS
Ascuris (Ezero), a lake in Thessaly in the range of Mt. Olympus. The castle Lapathus which Livy describes as above the lake Ascuris, probably corresponds to the ancient castle near Rapsani. (Liv. xliv. 2; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 349, 418.)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
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