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Anchoe

Ἀγχόη

Anchoe (Ἀγχόη), a place on the borders of Boeotia and of Locris, near Upper Larymna, at which the waters of the Cephissus broke forth from their subterraneous channel. There was also a lake of the same name at this place. (Strab. ix. pp. 406, 407; Plin. Nat. 4.7. s. 12; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 289.) [LARYMNA]

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.