Aegospotami

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Aegospotami
       n 1: 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
            [syn: {Aegospotamos}]
       2: 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) [syn: {Aegospotamos}]