COPHEN
COPHEN or
COPHES (
Κωφήν,--ῆνος, Arrian.
Ind. 1.4,
Anab. 4.22, 5.1;
Κώφης,--ου, Dionys. Per. 1140;
Strab. xi. p.697;
Plin. Nat. 6.17. s. 21,
20. s. 23; Mela, 3.7.6), a river in the western part of India, which flowed into the Indus. From the order in which the rivers of the
Panjáb are mentioned, it seems likely that the Cophes is represented by the river of
Kábul. (Lassen,
z. Gesch. d. Kon. v. Baktrien, v. p. 129; Ritter,
Erdkunde, vol. iii. p. 420, vol. v. p. 449.) Its principal tributaries are the Choaspes (Strab. p. 697;
Curt. 8.10), the modern
Attok, and the Choes (
Χόης, Arrian,
Arr. Anab. 4.23), the modern
Kameh. [
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