Assa

3 Assa, æ, f. , ville de Macédoine : Plin. 4, 38.

ASSA

ASSA(Ἀσσα: Eth. Ἀσσαῖος), a town of Chalcidice, in Macedonia, on the Singitic gulf. (Hdt. 7.122.) It is probably the same town as the ASSERAof Theopompus (Steph. B. s. v. Ἄσσηρα), and the CASSERAof Pliny (Plin. Nat. 4.10), its territory being called ASSYRYTIS(Ἀσσυρῦτις) by Aristotle (Hist. An. 3.12). Here was a river which was called the Ψυχρόςfrom its coldness. (Aristot. l. c.) Leake places Assa at the head of the Singitic gulf, at some ruins called Paleókastro, about midway, by land, between Erissóand Vurvurí. ( Northern Greece, vol. 3. p. 153.)

Assa Assa, a town in the Singitic gulf west of Athos

• Hdt. 7.122