COPHUS
COPHUS (
Κωφός:
Kufó), the harbour of Torone in Sithonia, which was so called because, being separated from the outer sea by two narrow passages, the noise of the waves was not heard in it; hence the proverb
Κωφότερος τοῦ Τοροναίου λιμένος. (Zenob.
Prov. Graec. cent. 4, pr. 68; Strab. Epit. vii. p. 330; Mela, 2.3.) Leake (
North. Greece, vol. iii. p. 119) suggests that it may be the same as what Thucydides (
5.2) called the harbour of the Colophonians, and that we should read
Κωφῶν instead of
Κολοφωνίων. The modern harbour of
Kufó still preserves the ancient name.
[
E.B.J]
