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Synonyms for aegospotami
Noun
- 1. Aegospotami, Aegospotamos, brook, creek
- usage: 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
- 2. Aegospotami, Aegospotamos, naval battle
- usage: 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)
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