EURYME´NAE
EURYME´NAE (
Εὐρυμεναί, Apoll. Rhod.,
Steph. B. sub voce Ἐρυμναί, Strab.: Eth.
Εὐρυμένιος).
1.
A town of Magnesia in Thessaly, situated upon the coast at the foot of Mt. Ossa, between Rhizus and Myrae. (
Scylax, p. 25;
Strab. ix. p.443;
Liv. 39.25.) Pliny relates that crowns thrown into a fountain at Eurymenae became stones. (
Plin. Nat. 31.2. s. 20.) Leake supposes the site of Eurymenae to be represented by some ancient remains between
Thanátu and
Karítza. (Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 415.)
2.
A town of Molossis in Epirus, is placed by Leake in the vale of the Upper Acheron, towards
Latriá, Variádhes, or
Tervitzianá. (
Diod. 19.88; Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. i. p. 253.)