CORAX
CORAX (
Κόραξ,
Ptol. 5.9. § § 7, 10, 31, 5.10.1), a small river placed by Ptolemy in Sarmatia Asiatica, and which, rising in the Coraxici Montes,--a western portion of the chain of the Caucasus,--flowed SW. into the Euxine Sea.
It was the northern limit of Colchis.
It is probable that the Chariens of Arrian (
Peripl. p. 10), the Charien of Pliny (
6.3. 4), the Charis of Strabo (
xi. p.499), and the Charistos of Ptolemy (
5.10.2), are one and the same river with it. Its present name is
Sukum. [
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