Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ro Flacc. 18.) In the reign ofTiberius it was much injured by an earthquake ( ii. 47), and in the time of Pliny it had ceased TEMPE. to be inhabited altogether. Its site is commonlyidentified with the modern Menimen, though Texier,in his Description de IAsie Mineure, looks for it atthe site of the village of Gvzal-Hissar. [L. S.]. COIN OF TEMNUS. TEMPE (to Tf>Trr), contr. of TeyUTrea), a cele-brated valley in the NE. of Thessaly, is a gorgebetween Mounts Olympus and Ossa, through whichthe wafers of the Peneius force their way into thesea. Th
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ro Flacc. 18.) In the reign ofTiberius it was much injured by an earthquake ( ii. 47), and in the time of Pliny it had ceased TEMPE. to be inhabited altogether. Its site is commonlyidentified with the modern Menimen, though Texier,in his Description de IAsie Mineure, looks for it atthe site of the village of Gvzal-Hissar. [L. S.]. COIN OF TEMNUS. TEMPE (to Tf>Trr), contr. of TeyUTrea), a cele-brated valley in the NE. of Thessaly, is a gorgebetween Mounts Olympus and Ossa, through whichthe wafers of the Peneius force their way into thesea. The beauties of Teinpe were a favourite sub-ject with the ancient poets, and have been describedat great length in a well-known passage of Aelian,and more briefly by Pliny: but none of these writersappear to have drawn their pictures from actualobservation; and the scenery is distinguished ratherby savage grandeur than by the svlvan beautywhich Aelian and others attribute to it. ( 285; Ov. Met. i. 568; Virg. Georg. ii. 469;Aelian, V. H. iii. 1; Plin. iv. 8. s. 15.) The accountof Livy, who copies from Polybius, an eye-witness, ismore in accordance with reality. This writer says, Tenipe is a defile, difficult of access, even thoughnot guarded by an enemy; for besides the narrow-ness of the pass for 5 miles, where there is scarcelyroom for a beast of burden, the ro
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