Macistus

Macistus or makistos is a term derived from Doric Greek meaning tallest or greatest.[1]

Makistios was an epithet of Heracles, who had a temple in the neighbourhood of the town of Macistus in Triphylia, Elis (Peloponnese).[2]
Macistus was also a son of Athamas and brother of Phrixus, from whom the town of Macistus in Triphylia was believed to have derived its name.[3]

Notes

LSJ: Attic: mêkistos Doric: μάκιστος
Strabo, 8.3.21: ἐν δὲ τῷ μεταξὺ το τε τοῦ Μακιστίου Ἡρακλέους ἱερόν ἐστι και ὁ Ἀκίδων ποταμός — In the intervening space are both the temple of the Macistian Heracles and the Acidon River..
Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Makistos

Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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