Ophiusa
Ophiusa, OPHIUSSA.
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[TYRAS]
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An island off the coast of Crete (Plin. Nat. 4.20), which is probably represented by Gavdapoulo or Anti-Gozzo, unless it be the same as the OXEIA INS. (Ὀξ<>ῖα, Stadiasm. 321), which the anonymous Coast-describer places near Leben. [E.B.J]
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.