Sperchius

The Aenianians, an Aeolian people inhabiting the upper valley of the Sperchius (the ancient Phthia); their capital was Hypata.

Anabasis 2007

History, gives us an account of Aethra, different yet from all the rest: that Achilles and Patroclus overcame Paris in Thessaly, near the river Sperchius, but that Hector took and plundered the city of the Troezenians, and made Aethra prisoner there.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Through which Sperchius rolls his friendly stream.

The Persians 2002

Through which Sperchius rolls his friendly stream.

The Persians 2002

This conducts him to the fields of Pharsalia, whence he ascends the mountains south of Pharsalus; then, crossing the bleak and still more elevated region extending from these mountains towards Lamia, he views Mount Pindus far before him, and descending into the plain of the Sperchius, passes the straits of

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

All the bridges of the Sperchius had been broken down, and the left bank of the river was occupied by the Thessalians, who had collected _en masse_; nevertheless, the

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

In his approach to this position, the Brenn had to pass the river Sperchius, to defend which Calippus had detached a small force: the Brenn, by a stratagem, directed their attention from the real point of attack, and crossed the river without loss.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

He had suffered the flowing curls to grow long because of a vow made by his father to the river Sperchius that he would sacrifice these locks to him on his son's return home, a useless vow, since now he was to lose his life by this dark blue sea.

National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

Megistias, whom once the Medes, having passed the river Sperchius, slew;

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

Then he slays Polydæmon, sprung from the blood of Semiramis, and the Caucasian Abaris, and Lycetus, the son of Sperchius, [9] and Elyces, with unshorn locks, and Phlegias, and Clytus; and he tramples upon the heaps of the dying, which he has piled up.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847