River
Fl. Pediaeus
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The Pediaeus was the chief river of Cyprus, flowing out to the east between Citium and Salamis, and it was also known as the Aous; the modern river is called the Pidias. The geographer Ptolemy knew it under its Greek name. The map leaves this river unnamed, and it draws a line that makes no sense: the stream runs from one shore to the other and so has no source. Perhaps only the right-hand stretch was original, the Pediaeus or possibly the Barbaros, and the copyist later drew it further to the left.