From ophis opheos, snake. One of the many names of the island of Rhodes, according to historians such as Strabo, Pliny the Elder and Ammianus Marcellinus. Other names were Estadia, Telkines, Asteria, Etria, Tinacria, Corimbia, Peesa, Atabiria, Macaria and Olesa. " (Rhodo). . . vocitata est antea Ophiusa , Asteria , Aethraea , Tinacria , Corymbia , Paeessa , Atabyria ab rege . Deinde Macaria et Oloessa", Pliny the Elder tells us in his Naturalis History, Book V, 54.
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