CAERA´TUS
CAERA´TUS (
Καίρατος:
Karteró), a river of Crete, which flows past Cnossus, which city was once known by the same name as the river. (
Strab. x. p.476; Eustath.
ad Dionys. Perieg. 5.498; Hesych.; Virg.
Ciris, 113, flumina Caeratea; comp. Pashley,
Trav. vol. i. p. 263.)
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