. BBI. TheTencteri afterwards belonged to the League ofthe Cherusci, and at a still later period theyare mentioned as a portion of the confederacyof the Franks. (Caes. iv. 1,4-16; 32, Ann. xiii. 56, Hist. iv. 77.) Tenea (Tevea), a town in Corinthia. abouteight miles S. of Corinth (Paus. ii. 5, 4; 380 ; Cic. ad Att. vi. 2, 3). Tenedos or Tenedus (TeVeSos: TWSios), asmall island of the Aegaean sea, off the coast ofTroas, of an importance very disproportionateto its size, on account of its position near themouth
. BBI. TheTencteri afterwards belonged to the League ofthe Cherusci, and at a still later period theyare mentioned as a portion of the confederacyof the Franks. (Caes. iv. 1,4-16; 32, Ann. xiii. 56, Hist. iv. 77.) Tenea (Tevea), a town in Corinthia. abouteight miles S. of Corinth (Paus. ii. 5, 4; 380 ; Cic. ad Att. vi. 2, 3). Tenedos or Tenedus (TeVeSos: TWSios), asmall island of the Aegaean sea, off the coast ofTroas, of an importance very disproportionateto its size, on account of its position near themouth of the Hellespont, from which it is abouttwelve miles distant. Its distance from thecoast of the Troad was forty stadia (four ), and from Lesbos fifty-six stadia: itscircuitwas eighty stadia. It was called, in early times,by the names of Calydna, Leucophrys, Phoenice,and Lyrnessus. It had an ancient temple ofApollo (17. i. 38, 452). The mythical derivationof its usual name is from Tenes, son of Cycnus(Strab. p. 380 ; Diod. v. 83). It had an Aeolian. Coin of Tenedos, of 2nd cent. , double head, male and female, explained by some asBacchus dimorphus: rev., texeaiqn : double axe, owland grapes, suggesting a combined worship of Atheneand Dionysus. .Steph. B]iz. Tcv«5of, cites Aristotle asreferring this type of the double axe to a decree of aking of Tenedos that adulterers should be beheaded. ItIs rightly objected that this would be a very unlikelytheme to introduce on a coin; more probably it refersto a local myth Imperfectly understood : cf. Paus. x. 14.] city of the same name, with two harbours. Itsname appears in several proverbs, such asTeWSioj tt4\(Kvs, T. av6pumos, T. avKrirris, It appears in the legend of the Trojanwar as the station to which the Greeks withdrewtheir fleet in order to induce the Trojans tothink that they had departed, and to receivethe wooden horse (Verg. Aen. ii. 21). In thePersian war it was used by Xerxes as a navalstation
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