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Hippus

Ἵππος

Hippus (Ἵππος, Ptol. 5.9; Plin. Nat. 6.4), a river of Colchis, the embouchure of which the Periplus of Arrian (p. 10) fixes at 150 stadia from that of the Tarsuras. Rennell (Compar. Geog. vol. ii. p. 322) has identified it with the Ilori.

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.