The Catholic Encyclopedia
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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors)
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Acanthus, a titular see of Macedonia, on the Strymonic Gulf, now known as Erisso. Its inhabitants were praised by Xerxes for their zeal in his cause (Herodotus VII, cxxv). There were still extant earlier in the nineteenth century the ruins of a large curving mole built far into the sea.
SMITH, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geogr. (London, 1887), I, 8; LEAKE, Travels in Northern Greece (London, 1835), III, 147.
Trans. None. Written in English by the contributors whose signatures close each article., The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, in fifteen volumes, 1907. Public domain.