. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . p. 341, b.]TOMIS or TOMI (To>y, Strab. vii. p. 319;Ov. TV. iii. 9. 33; Geogr. Rav. iv. 6, &c: Td/Jiai,Ptol. iii. 10. § 8; Tomi, Plin. iv. 11. s. 18; i. 2, 255; Itin. Ant. p. 227, &c; in 2,Tomoe: we also find the Greek form To/xevs,Steph. B. s. v.; Arrian, Per. P. Eux. p. 24), atown nf Lower Moesia, on the Euxine, and the of the district of Scythia Minor ( vii. 25; Hierocl. p. 637). It was situatedat a distance of about 300 stadia or 36 miles fromIstros or Istropolis (Anon. Per. P. Eux. p. 12;Itin. Ant.
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . p. 341, b.]TOMIS or TOMI (To>y, Strab. vii. p. 319;Ov. TV. iii. 9. 33; Geogr. Rav. iv. 6, &c: Td/Jiai,Ptol. iii. 10. § 8; Tomi, Plin. iv. 11. s. 18; i. 2, 255; Itin. Ant. p. 227, &c; in 2,Tomoe: we also find the Greek form To/xevs,Steph. B. s. v.; Arrian, Per. P. Eux. p. 24), atown nf Lower Moesia, on the Euxine, and the of the district of Scythia Minor ( vii. 25; Hierocl. p. 637). It was situatedat a distance of about 300 stadia or 36 miles fromIstros or Istropolis (Anon. Per. P. Eux. p. 12;Itin. Ant. p. 227), but according to the Tab. miles. It was a Milesian colony, and accordingto the legend the place where Medea cut up herbrothers body, or where their father Aeetes pottogether and buried the pieces (Ov. I. c; Apollod. , 25; Hygin. Fab. 13.) The legend is no doubtconnected with the name of the town, which,however, is still better known as the place ofbanishment of Ovid. Now Tomisvar or Jeni [T. H. D.]. COIN OF TOMIS OR TOMI. TOMISA (Tofxtaa: Eth. To/jlkttivos, Toixurtvs, atown of Sophene, in Armenia, was ceded by Lu-cullus to the Cappadocians. (Polyb. xxxiv. 13;Strab. xii. p. 535, xiv. pp. 663, 664; Steph. B. s. v.) TONBEROS. [Tomerus.] TONICE. [Niconis Dromus.] TONOSA, a town of Cappadocia, 50 miles fromSebastia, still called Tonus. (It. Ant. pp. 181, 182,212.) TONSUS, or TONZUS (T<Wos, Zos. ii. 22. § 8 ;cf. Lampr. Elag. 7), the principal tributary of theHebrus in Thrace. It rises in the Haemus : itsgeneral course for about 70 miles is almost due E.;it then makes a sudden bend to the S., and, after afarther southerly course of nearly the same length,falls into the Hebrus, a short distance from Hadriano-polis. Now Tiaicza or Toondja. [J. TOPIRIS (Plin. iv. 11. s. 18; Tompis or Totttj-pis, Ptol. iii. 11. § 13), or Topirus (/<. Ant. p. 321;in p. 331, it is corrupted into Otopisus ; and inIt. Hier. p. 603, into Epyrus; Tab. Pent.; Toireipo
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