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Ophis

Ὄφις

Ophis (Ὄφις), a river of Pontus, the mouth of which was 90 stadia to the east of port Hyssus, and which separated Colchis from the country of the Thianni. (Arrian, Peripl. Pont. Eux. p. 6; Anonym. Peripl. p. 14, where it is called Ὀφιοῦς.) This river still bears the name of. Of.

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.