Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . itywith water and mud. Chandler, and other tra-vellers not being aware of this change, mistook theruins of Jlyus for those of Miletus, and describethem as such. (Leake, Asia Minor, p. 239.) MILYAS. Great as Miletus was as a commercial city, it is noless great in the history of Greek literature, beingthe birthplace of the philosophers Thales, Anaxi-mander, and Anaximenes, and of the historiansCadmus and Hecataeus. The Milesians, like the rest of the lonians,were notorious for their voluptuousness and ef-feminacy, though, at one time, they must havebeen
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . itywith water and mud. Chandler, and other tra-vellers not being aware of this change, mistook theruins of Jlyus for those of Miletus, and describethem as such. (Leake, Asia Minor, p. 239.) MILYAS. Great as Miletus was as a commercial city, it is noless great in the history of Greek literature, beingthe birthplace of the philosophers Thales, Anaxi-mander, and Anaximenes, and of the historiansCadmus and Hecataeus. The Milesians, like the rest of the lonians,were notorious for their voluptuousness and ef-feminacy, though, at one time, they must havebeen brave and warlike. Their manufactures ofcouches and other furniture were very celebrated,and their woollen cloths and carpets were particularlyesteemed. (Athen. 1. p. 28, xi. p. 428, xii. 540,553, XV. 691; Virg. Georg. iii. .306, iv. 335; , De Mileto ejusqne coloniis, Halae, 1790,4°; Schroeder, Comment, de Rebus Milesiorum,part i. Stralsund, 1817,4°; &o\A2ca, Rerum 31ile-siarum Comment, i. Darmstadt, 1829, 4°.) [L. S.]. COIN OF MILETUS. MLETUS, a town of Mysia, in the territory ofScepsis, on the river Evenus, which was destroyedas early as the time of Pliny (v. 32.). Anothertown of the same name in Paphlagonia, on the roadbetween Amastris and Sinope, is mentioned only inthe Pouting. Table. [L. S.] MILKTUS (MiAtjtos), a town of Crete,mentionedin the Homeric catalogue. (//. ii. 647.) This town,which no longer existed in the time of Strabo, waslooked upon by some writers as the mother-city ofthe Ionian colony of the same name. (Ephorus, xii. p. 573, xiv. p. 634; Schol. ApoU. 186; Apollod. iii. 1, 2, 3; Plin. iv. 12.) Mr. Pashley {Trav. vol. i. p. 269) explored thesite of this Homeric city not far frcm Episkopiano,at which, considerable remains of walls of polygonalmasonry, both of the acropolis and city are still tobeseem (Hock, AVeta, vol i. pp. 15, 418.) [] MILEUM, a Roman colonia (Mileu coloniaPcut. Tab.) in Numidia, which the Antonine Iti
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