. nd brother of Hemithea. Cycnus wasking of Colonae in Troas. His second wife wasPhilonome, who fell in love with her stepson; 926 TENOS TEBENTIUS but as be repulsed her advances, she accusedhim to his father, who threw both his son anddaughter in a chest into the sea. But the chestwas driven on the coast of the island of Leuco-phrys, of which the inhabitants elected himking, and which he called Tenedos, after his ownname. Cycnus at length heard of the inno-cence of his son, killed Philonome, and went tohis children in Tenedos. Here
. nd brother of Hemithea. Cycnus wasking of Colonae in Troas. His second wife wasPhilonome, who fell in love with her stepson; 926 TENOS TEBENTIUS but as be repulsed her advances, she accusedhim to his father, who threw both his son anddaughter in a chest into the sea. But the chestwas driven on the coast of the island of Leuco-phrys, of which the inhabitants elected himking, and which he called Tenedos, after his ownname. Cycnus at length heard of the inno-cence of his son, killed Philonome, and went tohis children in Tenedos. Here both Cycnus andTenes were slain by Achilles. Tenes was after-wards worshipped as a hero in Tenedos. ( 14, 2 ; Diod. v. 83 ; Strab. p. 640.) Tenos (Ttjvos : Ti]uios : Tino), a small islandin the Aegaean sea, SE. of Andros and N. ofDelos. It is about fifteen miles in length. Itwas originally called Hydrussa (TSpovcraa) be-cause it was well watered, and Ophiussa(0(pwv<Tcra) because it abounded in snakes.(Plin. iv. 66 ; Steph. Byz. ) It possessed a. Coin of Tenos, of 4th cent. , head of Zeus Ammon ; rev., th ; Poseidon withtrident and fish. town of the same name on the site of the modemS. Nicolo. It had also a celebrated temple ofPoseidon, which is mentioned in the time of theemperor Tiberius. (Hdt. viii. 82 ; Thuc. vii. 57 ;Strab. p. 487 ; Tac. Ann. iii. 63.) The wine ofTenos was celebrated in antiquity and is stillvalued at the present day. Tentyra (ts Tevrvpa : TecTupiVrjs, Tentyrites:Dernier ah, Bu.), a city of Upper Egypt, on theW. bank of the Nile, between Abydos andCoptos, with celebrated temples of Hathor—theQueen of Heaven ( = Aphrodite), who was spe-cially worshipped there—of Isis, and of Typhon(Strab. p. 814; Ptol. iv. 5, 6). Its people weredistinguished for their hatred of the crocodile;and upon this and the contrary propensities ofthe people of Ombi, Juvenal founds his fifteenthSatire. [Ombi.] There are still magnificent re-mains of the temple
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