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Coraxici Montes

ὁ Κόραξ ὄρος

Coraxici Montes (Mela, 1.19.3; Plin. Nat. 6.9. s. 10, 6.12. s. 15; Mart. Cap. 100.6; ὁ Κόραξ ὄρος, Ptol. 5.9. § § 14, 15, 18), the western part of the chain of the Caucasus to the N. of Colchis. It was the source, according to Ptolemy, of the river Cambyses; according to Mela and Pliny, of the Cyrus and Cambyses.

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.