COLOE
COLOE (
Κολόη λίμνη,
Ptol. 4.7.24,
31; Steph. Byz. s. v.), a lake in Aethiopia, lat. 12° N., through which flows, but with little intermixture of their several waters, the river Astapus (
Bahr-el-Azrek), the Blue or Dark River.
The lake Coloë is probably the
Ψέβωα of Strabo (
xvii. p.822), and is the modern Lake
Dembea or
Tzana. There was also in Aethiopia a town named Coloe (
Κολόη πόλις, Ptol. 4.7.25) of which the site is uncertain (Arrian,
Peripl. Mar. Erythr. p. 3; Mannert.
Geograph. vol. xii. p. 167).
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