Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Ateius Capĭto, Atrax

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Atrax

（Ἄτραξ).

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A town in Pelasgiotis in Thessaly, inhabited by the Perrhaebi, so called from the mythical Atrax, son of Peneus and Bura, and father of Caeneus and Hippodamia. Hence Caeneus is called Atracides, and Hippodamia, Atracis.

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A river of Aetolia falling into the Ionian Sea.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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