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Arsanias

Ἀρσανίας

Arsanias (Ἀρσανίας: Myrád-cháï), an affluent of the Euphrates according to Pliny (5.24, 6.31; comp. Tac. Ann. 15.15; Plut. Luc. 31). Ritter (Erdkunde, vol. x. pp. 85, 98, 101, 646, vol. xi. p. 110) considers it to be the S. arm of the Euphrates (St. Martin, Mém. sur l'Armenie, pp. 50, 51, 171).

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.