Cephisus
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
ever-flowing springs · the ford of the Cephisus
in the texts
Hellenica
River from which Agesilaus's army advances toward the battle of Coronea.
They met on the plain of Coronea, those with Agesilaus coming from the Cephisus, and those with the Thebans from Mount Helicon.
And his saying did not prove false, for when they had taken up their shields, he, as though led on by a kind of fate, leaped forth first of all, fell upon the enemy, and was slain, and he lies buried at the ford of the Cephisus;
Oedipus at Colonus
The river or watercourse whose pure current fertilizes the Athenian land in the choral praise.
Nor do the ever-flowing springs diminish, from which the waters of Cephisus wander, and each day with pure current it moves over the plains of the land’s swelling bosom, bringing fertility.