Nymphaeum

• a promontory and seaport in Illyria, on the borders of Macedonia, now Capo di Redeni, Caes. B. C. 3, 26, 4; Liv. 42, 36, 8; Plin. 3, 22, 26, § 144; Luc. 5, 720.

NYMPHAEUM (Νύμφαιον, Strab. 7. p. 330; Ptol. 3.13.11), the promontory to the S. of the peninsula of Acte, from whence Mt. Athos rises abruptly to the very summit. It is now called Kára Hághio Ghiórghi. (Leake, North. Greece, vol. iii. pp. 114, 149.)

NYMPHAEUM (Νομφαῖον.)

A place on the eastern coast of Bithynia, at a distance of 30 stadia west of the mouth of the Oxines (Arrian, Peripl. Pont. Eux. p. 14), or, according to the Periplus of the Anonymus (p. 4), 45 stadia from Tyndaridae.

A place in Cilicia, between Celenderis and Soli, is mentioned only by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.22). [L.S]

(Νυμφαῖον). (1) A mountain, with perhaps a village, by the river Aoüs, near Apollonia, in Illyricum.

(2) A port and promontory on the coast of Illyricum.

(3) The southwestern promontory of Acté or Athos, in Chalcidicé.

(4) A seaport town of the Tauric Chersonese (Crimea), on the Bosporus.

(5) A place on the coast of Bithynia.

(6) A place in Cilicia.

• Paus. 3.23.2