Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . llespont, was an importantnaval station. (Polyb. xvi. 34, xxvii. 6; Liv. xxxi.16, xliv. 28.) In the war against Mithridates, Lu-culhis fought a great naval battle near Tenedos.(Plut. Luc. 3; Cic.;;. Arch. 9, p. Mur. 15.) Inthe time of Virgil, Tenedos seems to have entirelylost its ancient importance, and, being conscious oftheir weakness, its inhabitants had placed them-.selves under the protection of Alexandria Troas(Pans. x. 14. § 4). The favourable situation of theisland, however, prevented its utter decay, and theemperor Justinian caused granaries
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . llespont, was an importantnaval station. (Polyb. xvi. 34, xxvii. 6; Liv. xxxi.16, xliv. 28.) In the war against Mithridates, Lu-culhis fought a great naval battle near Tenedos.(Plut. Luc. 3; Cic.;;. Arch. 9, p. Mur. 15.) Inthe time of Virgil, Tenedos seems to have entirelylost its ancient importance, and, being conscious oftheir weakness, its inhabitants had placed them-.selves under the protection of Alexandria Troas(Pans. x. 14. § 4). The favourable situation of theisland, however, prevented its utter decay, and theemperor Justinian caused granaries to be erected in it, to receive the supplies of corn conveyed from Egypt toConstantinople. (Procop. c7e v4ecZ. v. 1.) The womenof Tenedos are reported to have been of surpas.singbeauty. (Athen. xiii. p. 609.) There are but fewancient remains in the island worthy of notice.(Chandler, Travels in Asia Minor, p. 22; Prokesch, TENEDOS.Denkwilrfhf/keiten, i. p. Ill, foil.; Hemmcr, Hes-publica Teuedioi-um, Hafniae, 1735.) [L. S.] TKNTYIIA. 1127. COIN OF TENEDOS. TEXEDOS (TeVeSos: Eth. TeviZiis), a fortifiedcoast-town in the west of Pamphylia, 20 stadia tothe we.st of Attalia. (Stepli. B. s. v.; Stadiusm.Mm: M. §§ 224, 225.) It has been conjecturedthat this town is the same as Olbia, the remains ofwhich are exactly 20 stadia from Attalia, and thatone of the two names was I-ycian and the otherGreek. (Miiller, ad Stadmsm. p. 490.) [L. S.] TENERICUS CAMPUS. [Boeoth, p. 413, b.] TENESIS REGIO (TTji/eais, Strab. xvi. p. 770), was, according to Strabo, who alone mentions it, aninland province of Aethiopia, lyinE; due E. of theSabae, and not far distant from the kingdom or cityof Meroe. Tenesis was governed, at least whenStrabo wrote, by a queen, who was also the sovereignif Meroe. This was one of the many districts ofAethiopia assigned by rumour to the Automoli, Sembritae, or Aegyptian war-caste, who abandonedtheir native country in the reign of Psammetichus[Sembritae]. The lake Coloe and the