SEPULCHRUM EURIPIDIS
SEPULCHRUM EURIPIDIS (
Amm. Marc. 27.4.8; comp.
Gel. 15.20; Plut.
Lycurg. 36;
Vitr. 8.3;
Plin. Nat. 31.19; Itin. Hierosol.), the remarkable monument erected to Euripides in Macedonia, at the narrow gorge of Aulon or Arethusa (
Besíkia or
Rumilí Bóghazi), where the mountains close upon the road.
The ancients (Vitruvius,
l.c.; Plin.
l.c.) placed it at the confluence of two streams, of which the water of one was poisonous, the other so sweet and health-giving that travellers were wont to halt and take their meals by its currents.
In the Jerusalem Itinerary, a document as late as the 13th century, it occurs as a station between Pennana and Apollonia. (Comp. Clarke's
Travels, vol. viii. pp. 9--13.)
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