ONCHESMOS S.
Albania.
A port of call on
the coast of Epeiros, just N of Santi Quaranta. Remains
of a small Roman theater and of buildings and fortifications of the Late Roman Empire suggest that it became
important only in Roman times. Its position is indicated
by Strabo (
7.7.5), and its wind favored Cicero in sailing
to Italy (Att. 7.2.1).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
D. E. Evangelides,
Ἡ Βόρειος Ἤπειρος
(1919) 39f; N.G.L. Hammond,
Epirus (1967) 111f.
N.G.L. HAMMOND