a river of Thessaly; rising on Mount Pindus
Latin word, found 10 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 2.487: Spercheosque et virginibus bacchata Lacaenis
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.579: populifer Sperchios et inrequietus Enipeus
Livy, Ab urbe condita 36.14.15: ab Thaumacis altero die consul ad Spercheum amnem pervenit, inde Hypataeorum agros vastavit.