Icus
Ἴκος
Icus (Ἴκος: Eth. Ἴκιος), one of the group of islands off the coast of Magnesia in Thessaly, lay near Peparethus, and was colonised at the same time by the Cnossians of Crete. (Scymn. Chins, 582; Strab. ix. p.436; Appian, App. BC 5.7.) The fleet of Attalus and the Rhodians sailed past Scyrus to Icus. (Liv. 31.45.) Phanodemus wrote an account of this insignificant island. (Steph. B. sub voce It is now called Sarakńo. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 312.)
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.