Permessus

The Permessus or Permessos (Ancient Greek: Περμησσός) was a stream rising in Mount Helicon, which, after uniting with the Olmeius, flowed into Lake Copais near Haliartus. William Martin Leake, visiting the site in the 19th century, regarded the Kefalári as the Permessus, and the river of Zagará as the Olmeius.[1][2][3][4]

This river, apparently sacred to Apollo (patron deity of poets), is referred to in Propertius' poem (2.10.25-6) to Augustus, 'Nondum etenim Ascraeos norunt mea carmina fontes, Sed modo Permessi flumine lavit Amor.'


References
  1. Strabo. Geographica. ix. pp. 407, 411. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. Schol. ad Hesiod Theog. 5
  3. Pausanias. Description of Greece. 9.29.2.
  4. William Martin Leake, Travels in Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 212.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Boeotia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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