Caprus
Καπρος
Caprus
1.
(Καπρος, Strab. xvi. p.738; Plb. 5.51; Ptol. 6.1.7), a river of Assyria which flowed into the Tigris, not many miles below Nineveh. Its modern name is the Lesser Záb. It is probable that the name of this, and that of the Greater Záb, the Lycus, were imported into Assyria by the Greeks from Phrygia, in which were two rivers of the same names in close propinquity the one to the other. [V]
2.
A tributary of the Maeander, rising in Phrygia. [MAEANDER]
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.