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Cabassus

Καβασσός

Cabassus (Καβασσός, or Καβησσός: Eth.Καβήσσιος, Eth. Καβησσίτης). According to Apion, quoted by Stephanus, a village of Cappadocia between Tarsus and Mazaca; not the Cabessus of Homer (Hom. Il. 13.363), certainly. Ptolemy places it in Cataonia.

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.