Nymphaeum
Νομφαῖον
Nymphaeum (Νομφαῖον.)
1.
A place on the eastern coast of Bithynia, at a distance of 30 stadia west of the mouth of the Oxines (Arrian, Peripl. Pont. Eux. p. 14), or, according to the Periplus of the Anonymus (p. 4), 45 stadia from Tyndaridae.
2.
A place in Cilicia, between Celenderis and Soli, is mentioned only by Pliny (5.22). [L.S]
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.