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Apsinthii

Ἀψίνθιοι

Eth. Apsinthii or APSYNTHII (Eth.Ἀψίνθιοι, Eth. Ἀψύνθιοι), a people of Thrace, bordering on the Thracian Chersonesus. (Hdt. 6.34, 9.119.) The city of Aenus was also called Apsynthus (Steph. B. sub voce s. vv. Αἶνος, Ἄψυνθος); and Dionysius Periegetes (577) speaks of a river of the same name.

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.