PAMISUS
PAMISUS (
Πάμισος).
1.
The chief river of Messenia. [See Vol. II. pp. 341, 342.]
2.
A river in Laconia, forming the ancient boundary between Messenia and Laconia. (
Strab. viii. p.361.) Strabo speaks of this river as near Leuctrum. but it flows into the sea at Pephnus, about 3 miles S. of Leuctrum. [PEIPHNUS.]
3.
A tributary of the Peneius in Thessaly, probably the modern
Bliúri or
Piliúri. (
Hdt. 7.129 ;
Plin. Nat. 4.8. s. 15; Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. iv. pp. 512, 514.)