. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . the Hellespont, was an importantnaval station. (Polyb. xvi. 34, xxvii. 6; Liv. , xliv. 28.) In the war against Mithridates, Lu-cullus fought a great naval battle near Tenedos.(Plut. Luc. 3; Cic. p. Arch. 9, p. Mur. 15.) Inthe lime 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(Paus. x. 14. § 4). The favourable situation of theisland, however, prevented its utter decay, and theemperor Justinian caused gra
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . the Hellespont, was an importantnaval station. (Polyb. xvi. 34, xxvii. 6; Liv. , xliv. 28.) In the war against Mithridates, Lu-cullus fought a great naval battle near Tenedos.(Plut. Luc. 3; Cic. p. Arch. 9, p. Mur. 15.) Inthe lime 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(Paus. 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. de Aed. v. 1.) The womenof Tenedos are reported to have been of surpassingbeauty. (Athen. xiii. p. 609.) There are but fewancient remains in the island worthy of notice.(Chandler, Travels in Asia Minor, p. 22; Prokesch, !, i. p. Ill, toll.; Hemmer, Res-publica Tenediorum, Hafniae, 1735.) [L. S.] TEXTYRA. 1127. coin- of TENEDOS (TeVeSos: Eth. TweSeis), a fortifiedcoast-town in the west of Pamphylia, 20 stadia tothe west of Attalia. (Steph. B. s. v.\ StMar. .if. §§ 22-1. 225.) It has heen conjecturedthat this town is the same as Olbia, the remains ofwhich are exactly 20 stadia from Attalia. and thatone of the two names was Lycian and the other. (Muller, ad Stadium, p. 490.) [L. S.] TENEBICUS CAMPUS. [Boeotia. p. 413,b.] TENESIS REGIO (Tr,v€<rls, Strab. xvi. p. 770),was, according to Strabo, who alone mentions it, aninland province of Aethiopia, lying due E. of theSabae. and not far distant from the kingdom or city! Meroe. Tenesis was governed, at least whenStraho wrote, by a queen, who was also the sovereignof Meroe. This was one of the many districts ofAethiopia assigned by rumour to the Antomoli,Sembritae, or Aegyptian war-caste, who abandonedtheir native country in the reign of Psammetichus[Sembritae]. The lake Coloe and the sour
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