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| Noun | 1. 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.[Wordnet]
2. 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).[Wordnet]. | |
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Date "Aegospotamos" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1764. (references) |
