. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. 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 histori
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. 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 Kiiins of Sardis. 9 Hence the expression ies&io plectro (Hon. Carm. i. 26, 11), and theallusion in the lines— Age, die Latinmn,Barbite, carmen,Lesbio prinium modulate civi.—Id. Carm. i. 32, 3. ^ Homer describes them in the complimentary terms— Al KO-kkeL ivLKOiV (^v\a yvvaiKUiV.—i7. ix. 130, 27 2. - Non eadem arboribus pendent vindemia nostris,Quam MethymncEO carpit de palmite Lesbos.—Virg. Georg. it. pocula Lesbii.—Hor. Carm. i. 17, licet abjectus Tiberina molliter unda Lesbia Mentoreo vina bibas opere.—Prop. i. 14, 1. 104 LYDIA. Book 11. II. Lydia. § 16. Lydia was bounded by the ^gsean Sea ou the W., Mysiaon the N., Phrygia on the E., and Caria on the S. In the latterdirection the boundary was carried do^vn by Strabo to the Marauder;the range of Messogis, however, forms the more correct these limits is included the northern part of Ionia, whichstretches along the sea-coast from the Hemsean Bay in the N. I^ydia is mountainous in its
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