Scopas
Σκόπας
Scopas (Σκόπας), an eastern tributary of the Sangarius in Galatia, which according to Procopius (de Aed. 5.4) joined the Sangarius, 10 miles east of the town of Juliopolis. Pliny (5.43) calls it Scopius, and according to Procopius this river frequently overflowed the country, which is perhaps alluded to in the Jerusalem Itinerary (p. 574), where a station called Hycronpotamum (i. e. ὑγρὸν ποταμόν) is mentioned about 13 miles to the east of Juliopolis. The modern name of the river is Aladan. (Comp. Leake, Asia Minor, p, 79; Eckhel, Doctr. Num. iii. p. 101.)
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.