Olophyxus
Ὀλόφυξος
Olophyxus (Ὀλόφυξος, Hdt. 7.22; Thuc. 4.109; Scyl. p. 27; Strab. vii. p.331; Steph. B. sub voce a town on the peninsula of Acte, the site of which is probably represented by the Arsaná of Khilandári, the tenth and last monastery of the E. shore of the Monte Santo. It is reported that here there were Hellenic remains found, in particular those of a mole, part of which is now left. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 141, 151.)
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.