Sepulchrum Euripidis
Sepulchrum Euripidis (Amm. Marc. 27.4.8; comp. Gel. 15.20; Plut. Lycurg. 36; Vitr. 8.3; Plin. Nat. 31.19; Itin. Hierosol.), the remarkable monument erected to Euripides in Macedonia, at the narrow gorge of Aulon or Arethusa (Besíkia or Rumilí Bóghazi), where the mountains close upon the road. The ancients (Vitruvius, l.c.; Plin. l.c.) placed it at the confluence of two streams, of which the water of one was poisonous, the other so sweet and health-giving that travellers were wont to halt and take their meals by its currents. In the Jerusalem Itinerary, a document as late as the 13th century, it occurs as a station between Pennana and Apollonia. (Comp. Clarke's Travels, vol. viii. pp. 9--13.)
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.