. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . k inhabitants, dispersed in twelve smallvillages. Hence we are surprised to find it calledby Dionysius (Perieg. 532) A^/xrirepos okttJ; butthe praises of its fertility cannot have been writtenfrom personal observation, and must have arisensimply from the abundance possessed by its inha-bitants in consequence of their wealth. Thasos pro-duced marble and wine, both of which enjoyed con-siderable reputation in antiquity. (Athen. i. pp. 28,32, iv. p. 129 ; Xen. Symp. 4. § 41; Virg. 91.) The chief produce of the island at presentis oil, maize, h
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . k inhabitants, dispersed in twelve smallvillages. Hence we are surprised to find it calledby Dionysius (Perieg. 532) A^/xrirepos okttJ; butthe praises of its fertility cannot have been writtenfrom personal observation, and must have arisensimply from the abundance possessed by its inha-bitants in consequence of their wealth. Thasos pro-duced marble and wine, both of which enjoyed con-siderable reputation in antiquity. (Athen. i. pp. 28,32, iv. p. 129 ; Xen. Symp. 4. § 41; Virg. 91.) The chief produce of the island at presentis oil, maize, honey, and timber; the latter, whichis mostly fir, is the principal article of export. The coins of Thasos are numerous. The onefigured below represents on the obverse the head ofDionysus, and on the reverse a figure of Herculeskneeling. (Prokesch von Osten, Denl-wiirdigkeiten, vol. 611, seq.; Cousinery, Voyage dans la Macedoine,vol. ii. p. 85, seq.; Griesbach, Reise, vol. i. p. 210,seq.; Journal of Geogr. Society, vol. vii. p. 64.). COIN OF THASOS. THAUBASIUM (Itin. Ant. p. 171; Thau-basteum, Not. Imp.), was a frontier town of LowerAegypt, situated on the Canopic arm of the Nile,about 8 miles N. of Serapeium and the NatronLakes. In Roman times Thaubasium was thehead-quarters of a company of light auxiliarytroops II Ala Ulpia Afrorum. (Orelli, 2552.) It is supposed to be at the modernCheych-el-Nedy. (Champollion, VEgypte, vol. 71.) [W. ] THAUMACI (SavnaKot: Eth. ), atown of Phthiotis in Thessaly, was situated on thepass called Coela, on the road from Thermopylaeand the Maliac gulf passing through Lamia. Atthis place, says Livy, the traveller, after traversingrugged mountains and intricate valleys, comes sud-denly in sight of an immense plain like a vast sea,the extremity of which is scarcely visible. Fromthe astonishment which it excited in the traveller,the city was supposed to have derived its name. Itstood upon a lofty and precipitous
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