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[2] This Asopus rises in the Phliasian territory, flows through the Sicyonian, and empties itself into the sea here. His daughters, say the Phliasians, were Corcyra, Aegina, and Thebe. Corcyra and Aegina gave new names to the islands called Scheria and Oenone, while from Thebe is named the city below the Cadmea. The Thebans do not agree, but say that Thebe was the daughter of the Boeotian, and not of the Phliasian, Asopus.

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    • W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 5.80
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    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ASO´PUS
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MAEANDER
    • Smith's Bio, Aso'pus
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