Cophus
Κωφός
Cophus (Κωφός: Kufó), the harbour of Torone in Sithonia, which was so called because, being separated from the outer sea by two narrow passages, the noise of the waves was not heard in it; hence the proverb Κωφότερος τοῦ Τοροναίου λιμένος. (Zenob. Prov. Graec. cent. 4, pr. 68; Strab. Epit. vii. p. 330; Mela, 2.3.) Leake (North. Greece, vol. iii. p. 119) suggests that it may be the same as what Thucydides (5.2) called the harbour of the Colophonians, and that we should read Κωφῶν instead of Κολοφωνίων. The modern harbour of Kufó still preserves the ancient name.
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.