Aegospotami

[ee-guh s-pot-uh-mahy]

noun

a river in ancient Thrace, flowing into the Hellespont: near its mouth the Athenian fleet was defeated by Lysander, 405 b.c., in the last battle of the Peloponnesian War.

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Sparta had only Sestos and Abydos of all that she had won by the battle of Aegospotami.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10
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Aegospotami

noun

a river of ancient Thrace that flowed into the Hellespont. At its mouth the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians in 405 bc, ending the Peloponnesian War

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