AZO´RUS
AZO´RUS (
Ἄζωρος,
Ἀζώριον,
Ptol. 3.13.42: Eth.
Ἀζωρίτης), a town in Perrhaebia in Thessaly
[p. 1.355]situated at the foot of Mount Olympus. Azorus, with the two neighbouring towns of Pythium and Doliche, formed a Tripolis. (
Liv. 42.53,
44.2.)
There was also a town of the name of Azoras in Pelagonia in Macedonia. (
Strab. vii. p.327; Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 319, 342.)