Strymon
- I The river Strymon, in Macedonia, on the borders of Thrace, now Struma or Kara-su, Mel. 2, 2, 2 and 9; Plin. 4, 10, 17, § 38; 22, 10, 12, § 27; Verg. G. 4, 508; Ov. M. 2, 257; Liv. 44, 44, 8; Prop. 4 (5), 4, 72 al.—Many cranes lived upon its banks, Luc. 3, 199; Claud. B. Gild. 476.—
- II Poet., Thrace, Stat. Th. 5, 188.—Hence,
- A Strȳmŏnĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Strymon, Strymonian: grues, Verg. G. 1, 120; id. A. 10, 265; also called grex, Mart. 9, 30, 8.—Poet. for Thracian or northern: matres, Ov. Ib. 602: Arctos. Stat. Th. 3, 526: Aquilo, Sen. Agam. 479.—
- B Strȳ-mŏnis, ĭdis, adj. f., of or belonging to Thrace; subst., a Thracian woman: qualis Strymonis abscisso fertur aperta sinu, i. e. Amazon, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 72.
STRYMON(Στρυμών, Ptol. 3.13.18), the largest river of Macedonia, after the Axius, and, before the time of Philip, the ancient boundary of that country towards the E. It rises in Mount Scomius near Pantalia (the present Gustendil) (Thuc. 2.96), and, taking first an E. and then a SE. course, flows through the whole of Macedonia. It then enters the lake of Prasias, or Cercinitis, and shortly after its exit from it, near the town of Amphipolis, falls into the Strymonic gulf. Pliny, with less correctness, places its sources in the Haemus (4.10. s. 12). The importance of the Strymon is rather magnified in the ancient accounts of it, from the circumstance of Amphipolis being seated near its mouth; and it is navigable only a few miles from that town. Apollodorus (Apollod. 2.5. 10) has a legend that Hercules rendered the upper course of the river shallow by casting stones into it, it having been previously navigable much farther. Its banks were much frequented by cranes (Juven. 13.167; Verg. A. 10.269; Mart. 9.308). The Strymon is frequently alluded to in the classics. (Comp. Hesiod. Theog. 339; Aesch. Suppl. 258, Agam.192; Hdt. 7.75; Thuc. 1.200; Strab. 7. p. 323; Mela. 2.2; Liv. 44.44. &c. Its present name is Struma, but the Turks call it Karasu. (Comp. Leake, North. Gr. iii. pp. 225, 465, &c.)
[T.H.D](Στρυμών). Now Struma, called by the Turks Karasu; an important river in Macedonia, forming the boundary between that country and Thrace down to the time of Philip. It rose in Mount Scomius, flowed first south and then southeast, passed through the lake Prasias, and, immediately south of Amphipolis, fell into a bay of the Aegaean Sea, called after it Strymonĭcus Sinus.
- Paus. 8.8.9
- a river in Paeonia, Pisistratus' revenues thence: Hdt. 1.64
- Paeonians from the Strymon: Hdt. 5.98
- Xerxes' bridge over it: Hdt. 7.24
- Bithynians of Asia originally Strymonians: Hdt. 7.75
- Persian defence of Eion on the Strymon: Hdt. 7.107
- sacrifice offered to the river by the Magi: Hdt. 7.113
- Strymonian or north wind, Xerxes' danger from it: Hdt. 8.118
- river, father of Rhesus by the Muse Euterpe: Apollod. 1.3.3
- father of Evadne: Apollod. 2.1.1
- made unnavigable by Herakles: Apollod. 2.5.10
- the Edonians beside the: Apollod. 3.5.1