. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . Hffo9upevs, Coins), a small city of Lydia,according to Pausanias (/. a), or of Phrygia, ac-cording to Hieiocles (p. 668, ed. Wess.). It wouldseem to have been situated upon the borders ofMysia, since the Trimenothuritae ()—which name is probably only another form of theTemenothyritae—are placed by Ptolemy (v. 2. § 15)in .Mysia. (Eckhel, vol. iii. p. 119.). COIN OF TEMESA or TEMPSA (Te^erTj and Te^o,Strab.; , Steph. B.; Te/u^a, Ptol.: Eth. Te-fierralos, Tempsanus), an ancient city on the W. coastof Bruttium, a l
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . Hffo9upevs, Coins), a small city of Lydia,according to Pausanias (/. a), or of Phrygia, ac-cording to Hieiocles (p. 668, ed. Wess.). It wouldseem to have been situated upon the borders ofMysia, since the Trimenothuritae ()—which name is probably only another form of theTemenothyritae—are placed by Ptolemy (v. 2. § 15)in .Mysia. (Eckhel, vol. iii. p. 119.). COIN OF TEMESA or TEMPSA (Te^erTj and Te^o,Strab.; , Steph. B.; Te/u^a, Ptol.: Eth. Te-fierralos, Tempsanus), an ancient city on the W. coastof Bruttium, a little to the X. of the Gulf of Hippo-nium, or Golfo di Sta Eufemia. Strabo tells usthat it was originally an Ausonian city, but sub-sequently occupied by a colony of Aetolians who hadaccompanied Thoas to the Trojan War. (Strab. vi.) Many writers appear to have supposedthis to be the Temesa mentioned by Homer in theey on account of its mines of copper (Odyss. ): and this view is adopted by Strabo; thoughi: ; much more probable that the place alluded toby the poet was Temesa in Cyprus, otherwise calledTamasus. (Strab. ; Steph. B. s. v.; Schol. adII,in. Odyss. I. c.) We have no account of Temesahaving received a Greek colony in historical timesthough it seems to have become to a great extentHellenised, like so many other cities in this part ofItaly. At one period, indeed, we learn that it wascon
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