Caeratus
Καίρατος
Caeratus (Καίρατος: Karteró), a river of Crete, which flows past Cnossus, which city was once known by the same name as the river. (Strab. x. p.476; Eustath. ad Dionys. Perieg. 5.498; Hesych.; Virg. Ciris, 113, flumina Caeratea; comp. Pashley, Trav. vol. i. p. 263.)
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.