RHO´DIUS
RHO´DIUS (
Ῥόδιος), a river of Troas, having its sources in Mount Ida, a little above the town of Astyra; it flows in a north western direction, and after passing by Astyra and Cremaste, discharges itself into the Hellespont between Dardanus and Abydus. (
Hom. Il. 12.20,
20.215; Hesiod,
Hes. Th. 341;
Strab. xii. p.554, xiii. pp. 595, 603;
Plin. Nat. 5.33.) Strabo (
xiii. p.595) states that some regarded the Rhodius as a tributary of the Aesepus; but they must have been mistaken, as the river is mentioned on the coins of Dardanus. (Sestini,
Geog. Numis. p. 39.) Pliny (
l.c.) states that this ancient river no longer existed; and some modern writers identify it with the Pydius mentioned by Thucydides (
8.106; comp. Hesych. and Phavorin. s. v.
Πύδιον). Richter (
Wallfahrten, p. 457) describes its present condition as that of a brook flowing into the
Dardanelles by many mouths and marshes.
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