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aegospotamos meaning and definition
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Definition of Aegospotamos (noun)
- a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War
- synonyms: Aegospotami
- a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC)
- synonyms: Aegospotami
Source: Princeton University Wordnet