HyperDic: aegospotamos

English > 2 senses of the word Aegospotamos:
NOUNobjectAegospotamos, Aegospotamia creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey
actAegospotamos, Aegospotamia river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey)
English > Aegospotamos: 2 senses > noun 1, object
MeaningA 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.
SynonymAegospotami
Instance ofbrook, creekA natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
Part ofTurkey, Republic of TurkeyA Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans
English > Aegospotamos: 2 senses > noun 2, act
MeaningA 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).
SynonymAegospotami
Instance ofnaval battleA pitched battle between naval fleets
Part ofPeloponnesian WarA war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta
CatalanAegospotami, Aegospotamos

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