Harpasus

HA´RPASUS (Ἅρπασος: Harpsa), a river of Caria, flowing from south to north, and emptying itself into the Maeander. (Plin. Nat. 5.29; Steph. B. s. v. Ἅρπασα; Quint. Smnyrn. Posthonm. 10.144.) In the war against Antiochus the Romans encamped on its banks. (Liv. 38.13.)

HA´RPASUS (Ἅρπασος: the reading Ἅρπαγος, in Diod. Sic. 14.29, is faulty), a river which the Ten Thousand crossed (400 feet broad) from the territory of the Chalybes, who were, separated from the Scythini by this, river. (Xen. Anab. 4.7. 17) This, river, which has been identified by several writers with the Arpa-Châï, a northern affluent of the Araxes, and forming the E. boundary of Kars, is more probably represented by the Tchórúk-Sú (Jorák), as Colonel Chesney (Exped. Euphrat. vol. 2. p. 231) and Mr. Grote (Hist. of Greece, vol. 9. p. 161) suppose.

(Ἅρπασος). (1) A river of Caria, flowing north into the Maeander.

(2) A river of Armenia Maior, flowing south into the Araxes.