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Zenodotium

Ζηνοδότιον

Zenodotium (Ζηνοδότιον, D. C. 40.12; Steph. B. sub voce a strong castle in the upper part of Mesopotamia, which was held by the Parthians during the war between them and the Romans under Crassus. It is called by Plutarch, Zenodotia (Crass. 100.17). It cannot be identified with any modern site, but it was, probably, not far distant from Edessa.

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.