Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Scamander

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Scamander

（Σκάμανδρος).

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A river in the western part of the north coast of Sicily, falling into the sea near Segesta.

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The celebrated river of the Troad. (See Troas.) As a mythological personage, the river-god was called Xanthus by the gods. His contest with Achilles is described by Homer ( Il. xxi. 136 foll.).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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