Rhion, a promontory of Achaia, opposite to Antirrhium in Ætolia, at the mouth of the Corinthian gulf, called also the Dardanelles of Lepanto. The strait between Naupactum and Patræ bore also the same name. The tomb of Hesiod was at the top of the promontory. Livy, bk. 27, ch. 30; bk. 38, ch. 7.—Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 2.—Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 22.
Rhipha, or Rhiphe, a town of Arcadia. Statius, bk. 4, Thebaid, li. 286.
Rhiphæi, large mountains at the north of Scythia, where, as some suppose, the Gorgons had fixed their residence. The name of Rhiphæan was applied to any cold mountain in a northern country, and, indeed, these mountains seem to have existed only in the imagination of the poets, though some make the Tanais rise there. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 12.—Lucan, bk. 3, li. 272; bk. 3, li. 282; bk. 4, li. 418.—Virgil, Georgics, bk. 1, li. 240; bk. 4, li. 518.
Rhipheus, one of the Centaurs. Ovid, Metamorphoses.——A Trojan praised for his justice, &c. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 2, li. 426. See: [Ripheus].
Rhium. See: [Rhion].
Rhizonitæ, a people of Illyricum, whose chief town was called Rhizinium. Livy, bk. 45, ch. 26.
Rhoda, now Roses, a seaport town of Spain. Livy, bk. 34, ch. 8.——A town on the Rhone, from which the river received its name. It was ruined in Pliny’s age. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 4.
Rhodănus, a river of Gallia Narbonensis, arising in the Rhætian Alps, and falling into the Mediterranean sea, near Marseilles. It is one of the largest and most rapid rivers of Europe, now known by the name of the Rhone. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 5; bk. 3, ch. 3.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 2, li. 258.—Silius Italicus, bk. 3, li. 477.—Marcellinus, bk. 15, &c.—Cæsar, Gallic War, bk. 1, ch. 1.—Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 4.—Strabo, bk. 4.—Lucan, bk. 1, li. 433; bk. 6, li. 475.
Rhode, a daughter of Neptune. Apollodorus.——Of Danaus. Apollodorus.
Rhodia, one of the Oceanides. Hesiod.——A daughter of Danaus. Apollodorus.