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Sepias
Sepias
was a
town
of
Magnesia
in
ancient Thessaly
, near the
cape of the same name
.
Strabo
relates that Sepias was one of the
towns
, along with
Nelia
,
Pagasae
,
Ormenium
,
Rhizus
,
Olizon
,
Boebe
, and
Iolcus
that were
reduced
to
mere
villages
when being depopulated by
Demetrius Poliorcetes
to
populate
Demetrias
. At the
cape
, the
fleet
of
Xerxes I
suffered
heavily
during a
storm
shortly before the
Battle of Thermopylae
.
The town
of Sepias is located at the
modern
site
of
Pouri
.