Baphyras
Βαφύρας
Baphyras or BAPHYRUS (Βαφύρας), a small river of Macedonia, flowing by Dium through marshes into the sea. It was celebrated for the excellence of its τευθίδες, or cuttle-fish. (Liv. 44.6; Athen. 7.326d.; Lycophr. 274.) Pausanias (9.30.8) relates that this was the same river as the Helicon, which, after flowing 75 stadia above ground, has then a subterraneous course of 22 stadia, and on its reappearance is navigable under the name of Baphyras. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 411.)
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.