Gygaeus Lacus
Γυγαία Λίμνμ
Gygaeus Lacus (Γυγαία Λίμνμ: Mermere), a lake in Phrygia, on the road from Thyatira to Sardes, between the rivers Hermus and Hyllus. (Hom. Il. 2.864, 20.391; Hdt. 1.93; Strab. xiii. p.626; Plin. Nat. 5.30.) This lake was afterwards called Coloë, and near it was the necropolis of Sardes. It was said to have been made by human hands, to receive the waters which inundated the plain. (Comp. Hamilton's Researches, vol. i. p. 145.)
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.