ARGO´LICUS SINUS
ARGO´LICUS SINUS (
δ Ἀργολικὸς κόλπος), the gulf between Argolis and Laconia, but sometimes used, in a more extended sense, to indicate the whole
[p. 1.200]sea between the promontory Malea in Laconia and the promontory Scyllaeum in Troezenia, thus including the Hermonicus Sinus. (Strab. viii. pp. 335, 368; Pol. 5.91;
Ptol. 3.16.10;
Plin. Nat. 4.5. s. 9.)