Gaesus
Γαίσων
Gaesus, GESSUS (Γαίσων), a small river in Ionia, near Mount Mycale and the town of Priene. (Plin. Nat. 5.31; Mela, 1.17; comp. Hdt. 9.97.) Athenaeus (vii. p. 311) observes that Gaeson or Gaesonis was, according to some, a lake between Priene and Miletus, which had a communication with the sea.
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.