Geraestus
Gĕraestus or -os, i, f.,
- the principal town of Euboea, near the promontory Geraestus or Geraestum, opposite to the promontory of Sunium, now Geresto, or, acc. to others, Kastri, Liv. 31, 45, 10; Mel. 2, 7, 9; Plin. 4, 12, 21, § 63 sq.
Gĕræstus (-ŏs), ī, m. (Γεραιστός), ville et promontoire de lʼEubée : Liv. 31, 45 ; Plin. 4, 51.
GERAESTUS
GERAESTUS(Γεραιστός: Eth. Γεραίστιος), a promontory of Euboea, forming the south-west extremity of the island, now called Cape Mandíli. There was a town on this cape, with a celebrated temple of Poseidon, and at its foot there was a well-frequented port, which seems to have been small, though Livy, as Leake observes, calls it nobilis Euboeae portus.(Hom. Od. 3.177; Hdt. 8.7. 9.105; Thuc. 5.3; Xen. Hell. 3.4. 4, 5.4.61; Strab. 10. p. 446; Steph. B. s. v.;Liv. 31.45, Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 21; Mela, 2.7; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. 2. p. 423.)
Geraestus
(Γεραιστός). A promontory and harbour at the southern extremity of Euboea, with a celebrated temple of Poseidon (Thuc.iii. 3).
Geraestus
Geraestus, a town at the southern extremity of Euboea
- Hdt. 8.7, Hdt. 9.105
- Myrtilus thrown into the sea at: Apollod. E.2.7
- the daughters of Hyacinth sacrificed on the grave of: Apollod. 3.15.8