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: {Aegospotami}, {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: {Aegospotami}, {Aegospotamos}]