. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. Coin of Coin of Tenedos. Chap. VII. ISLANDS. 103 towD of the province of Asia. In addition to its liistorical fame,Lesbos has acquired celebrity as the primitive seat of the musicof the lyre.^ The lyre of Orpheus was believed to have been carried toits shore by the waves. It was the birth-place of Lesches, Terpander,Arion, and, above all, of Alcaeus and Sappho. Its women were famedfor their beauty,^ and, unfortunately, for their profligacy, which passedinto a proTerb in the term X^a^
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. Coin of Coin of Tenedos. Chap. VII. ISLANDS. 103 towD of the province of Asia. In addition to its liistorical fame,Lesbos has acquired celebrity as the primitive seat of the musicof the lyre.^ The lyre of Orpheus was believed to have been carried toits shore by the waves. It was the birth-place of Lesches, Terpander,Arion, and, above all, of Alcaeus and Sappho. Its women were famedfor their beauty,^ and, unfortunately, for their profligacy, which passedinto a proTerb in the term X^a^ia^^iv. The historians Hellanicus andTheophanes, and the philosophers Pittacus and Theophrastiis, werealso Lesbians. Lastly, we must notice the healthiness of the climate,justifying Tacituss encomium, ^^nsula nobilis et amoena ; and itshighly-prized
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