Ophiussa
Ὀφιοῦσσα
Ophiussa (Ὀφιοῦσσα), a small island in the Propontis, off the coast of Mysia, is mentioned only by Pliny (4.44) and Stephanus B. (s. v. Βέσβικος, where it is called Ὀφιόεσσα); it still bears its ancient name under the corrupt form of Afzia. (Pococke, Travels, iii. p. 167.)
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.