Elaeus
Ἐλαῖος
Elaeus
1.
(Ἐλαῖος, written Ἐλαιοῦς in Marcian, Peripl. p. 70), was an emporium or trading place on the coast of Bithynia at the mouth of a river of the same name. Elaeus was 120 stadia west of Cales. [CALES]
2.
Placed by Pliny in the Sinus Doridis; but nothing is known of it. [CERAMEICUS] [G.L]
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.