Quosenum (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Mary E. Downs, Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, M. Joann McDaniel Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Mary E. Downs, Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, M. Joann McDaniel Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 08, 2026 04:38 PM
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History
Pliny the Elder mentions a river named Quosenum in the context of his discussion of the voyage of the historian Polybius beyond the Atlas Mountains that was said to have been facilitated by Scipio Aemilianus.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246812218
- Less than certain: Fut / Quosenum?/ Kousa? fl. same as Quosenum (river) (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 1a C2 Quosenum? fl. = Fut fl.
Mary E. Downs, Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, M. Euzennat, and J. Desanges, 'Quosenum (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246812218> [accessed: 22 July 2026]
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