Eurotas

Eurōtas, ae, m., = Εὐρώτας,

• the principal river of Laconia, on the banks of which Sparta stood, now Basilipotamo, Mel. 2, 3, 9; Plin. 4, 5, 8, § 16; Cic. Inv. 2, 21, 96; id. Tusc. 5, 34, 98; Ov. M. 2, 247; id. Am. 2, 17, 32 et saep.; nom. Eurōta, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 15fin.; acc. Eurotan, Ov. M. 10, 169.

Eurotas — Eurotas (Lakonia), Pleiades 570248

Eurōtās, ae, m. (Εὐρώτας), der Hauptfluß in Lakonien, der durch Sparta fließt u. bei Gythium in den lakonischen Meerbusen mündet, j. Basilipotamo (»Königsfluß«), Cic. de div. 2, 96; Tusc. 5, 98. Ov. met. 2, 247.

Eurōtās, (13) æ, m. (Εὐρώτας), lʼEurotas [fleuve de Laconie] : Cic. Tusc. 5, 98.

Euro'tas

(Εὐρώτας), a son of Myles and grandson of Lelex. He was the father of Sparte, the wife of Lacedaemon, and is said to have carried the waters, stagnating in the plain of Lacedaemon, into the sea by means of a canal, and to have called the river which arose therefrom after his own name, Eurotas. (Paus. 3.1.2.) Apollodorus (3.10.3) calls him a son of Lelex by the nymph Cleochareia, and in Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v. Ταΰγετον) his mother is called Taygete. (Comp. Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. 4.15, Ol. 6.46, ad Lycophl. 886.) [L.S]

EUROTAS

EURO´TAS [LACONIA]

Eurōtas

(Εὐρώτας). The chief river in Laconia, on which Sparta stood, rises in Mount Boreum, in Arcadia, and flows into the Laconian Gulf (Thuc.ii. 139).

Eurotas Eurotas, river of Laconia

• Paus. 3.1.1, Paus. 3.13.8, Paus. 3.19.7, Paus. 3.21.1
• its sources: Paus. 8.44.3
• unites with Alpheus: Paus. 8.44.4, Paus. 8.54.2

Eurotas(2), son of Lelex

• father of Sparta: Apollod. 3.10.2

Eurotas(3), son of Myles

• third king of Laconia: Paus. 3.1.1
• drains the country: Paus. 3.1.1