MUCHIRE´SIS
MUCHIRE´SIS (
Μουχείρησις al. Μουχείρισις, Procop. B. G. 4.2, 15, 16), a canton of Lazica, populous and fertile: the vine, which does not grow in the rest of Colchis, was found here.
It was watered by the river RHEON (
Ῥέεν). Archaeopolis, its chief town, was the capital of Colchis, and a place of considerable importance in the Lazic war. (Le Beau,
Bas Empire, vol. ix. p. 217; Gibbon, c. xlii.)
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