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Polyaegus

Πολύαιγος

Polyaegus (Πολύαιγος), a desert island in the Aegaean sea, near Melos. (Ptol. 3.15.28; Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 23; Mela, 2.7.) It is either Polybos, or perhaps Antimelos with its wild goats. (Ross, Reisen auf den Grieeh. Inseln, vol. iii. p. 26.)

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.