BAPHYRAS
BAPHYRAS or
BA´PHYRUS (
Βαφύρας), a small river of Macedonia, flowing by Dium through marshes into the sea.
It was celebrated for the excellence of its
τευθίδες, or cuttle-fish. (
Liv. 44.6;
Athen. 7.326d.; Lycophr. 274.) Pausanias (
9.30.8) relates that this was the same river as the Helicon, which, after flowing 75 stadia above ground, has then a subterraneous course of 22 stadia, and on its reappearance is navigable under the name of Baphyras. (Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 411.)
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