Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . considerable hill near the village of Vmiena(Bdueva). There are only few traces of the wallsof the city. At the ruined church of St. John, nearthe rivulet, are some Hellenic foundations and frag-ments of columns. The saint is probably the suc-cessor of Asclepius, whcse temple, as we learn fromPausanias, stood longest in the city. There arelikewise the remains of a Roman building, about12 yards long and 6 wide, with the ruins of anarched roof. There are also near the Ladon someHellenic foundations, and the lower parts of six co-lumns. Below Vdne7ia tlie
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . considerable hill near the village of Vmiena(Bdueva). There are only few traces of the wallsof the city. At the ruined church of St. John, nearthe rivulet, are some Hellenic foundations and frag-ments of columns. The saint is probably the suc-cessor of Asclepius, whcse temple, as we learn fromPausanias, stood longest in the city. There arelikewise the remains of a Roman building, about12 yards long and 6 wide, with the ruins of anarched roof. There are also near the Ladon someHellenic foundations, and the lower parts of six co-lumns. Below Vdne7ia tliere stands upon the rightbank of the Ladon the ruined church of St. Athana-sius the Miraculous, where Leake found the remainsof several columns. Half a mile below this churchis the village of Tumbiki, where a promontoiy pro-jects into the river, upon which there is a moundapparently artificial. This mound is probably thetomb of Trygon, and Tumbiki is the site of thethe temple of Asclepius. Pausanias, in describing the route from Psopiiis. COIN OF \. THEMISCYRA. to Thelpusa, after mentioning the boundaries betweenthe territories of the two states [Psopiiis], firstcrosses the river Arsen, and then, at the distance of25 stadia, arrives at the ruins of a village Cans anda temple of Causius, erected upon theroadside. From this place the distance to Thelpusawas 40 stadia. (Leake, Morea, vol. ii. pp. 97, seq.,250, seq., Peloponnesiaca, pp. 205, 222, 228 jBoblaye, Recherches, ijc. p. 152; Ross, Reisen iniPelopvnnes. p. Ill; Curtius, Pelojwnnesos, vol. 370, seq.) THELUTHA, a fortress situated on an island inthe Euphrates. It is mentioned by Anmiianus(xsiv. 2), who states that it was used as a treasuryby the Persians. It is unquestionably the same asthe Thilabus of Isidorus {Stathm. Parth. 1), whogives a similar description of it, and places it at nogreat distance from another island in the same river,Anatho. Zosimus, speaking of the same region,notices a fortifi
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