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[3] Psophis is also the name of the Zacynthian acropolis, because the first man to sail across to the island was Zacynthus, the son of Dardanus, a Psophidian who became its founder. From Seirae it is thirty stades to Psophis, by the side of which runs the river Aroanius, and a little farther away the river Erymanthus.

Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.

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    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), AROA´NIUS
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PSOPHIS
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ZACYNTHUS
    • Smith's Bio, Eryci'na
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