CONO´PE
CONO´PE afterwards ARSI´NOE (
Κωνώπη: Eth.
Κωνωπευς, Eth.
Κωνωπίτης, Eth.
Κωνωπαῖος Ἀρσινόη: Eth.
Ἀρσινοΐτης, Eth.
Ἀρσινοεύς:
Anghelokastro), a town of Aetolia, near the eastern bank of the Achelous, and 20 stadia from the ford of this river.
It was only a village, till it was enlarged by Arsinoe, the wife and sister of Ptolemy Philadelphus. Polybius, in his history of the Social War (B.C. 220--217), calls it Conope, though elsewhere he calls it Arsinoe or Arsinoia (
Ἀρσινοΐα).
It is mentioned by Cicero under the name of Arsinoe. Near this town the
[p. 1.656]river Cyathus flowed into the Achelous from the lake Hyria, which is also called Conope by Antoninus Liberalis. (Strab. p. 460; Pol. 4.64, 5.6, 7, 13, 9.45, 30.14; Cic. c.
Pis. 37; Antonin. Lib. 12;
Steph. B. sub voce Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. i. p. 152.) [
AETOLIA p. 64a.]
