Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . t theisland was famous for its wine (comp. Athen. i. ), bearing, as they do, an amphora on oneside, and onthe other a vine with leaves. (Eckhej, p. 159.) The inhabitants were expert sea-men and their beaked ships, Lembi Issaici, ren-dered the Romans especial service in the war withPhilip of Iilacedon. (Liv. xxxi. 45, xxxvii. 16,xlii. 48.) They were exempted from the paymentof tribute (Liv. xlv. 8), and were reckoned as Romancitizens (Plin. iii. 21). In the time of Caesar thechief town of this island appears to have been veryflourishing. The
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . t theisland was famous for its wine (comp. Athen. i. ), bearing, as they do, an amphora on oneside, and onthe other a vine with leaves. (Eckhej, p. 159.) The inhabitants were expert sea-men and their beaked ships, Lembi Issaici, ren-dered the Romans especial service in the war withPhilip of Iilacedon. (Liv. xxxi. 45, xxxvii. 16,xlii. 48.) They were exempted from the paymentof tribute (Liv. xlv. 8), and were reckoned as Romancitizens (Plin. iii. 21). In the time of Caesar thechief town of this island appears to have been veryflourishing. The island now called Lissa rises from the sea, sothat it is seen at a considerable distance; it has twoports, the larger one on the NE. side, with a townof the same name: the soil is barren, and wine fonnsits chief produce. Lusa is memorable in moderntimes for the victory obtained by Sir W. Hoste overthe French squadron in 1811. (Sir G. Wilkinson,Dahnatia and Montenegro, vol. i. p. 110 ; Neige-baur, Die Sudslavem, pp. 110—115.) [E. B. Agathem. i. 5;26; Steph. B.; COIN OF issa. ISSA. [Lesbos.] ISSACHAR. [Palaestina.] ISSEDONES (I<ra7j5rf;€j, Steph. B. s. v. ; inthe Roman writers the usual form is Esse-dones), a people living to the E. of the Argip-paei, and the most remote of the tribes of Cen-tral Asia with whom the Hellenic colonies onthe Euxine liad any communication. The nameis found as early as the Spartan Alcman, b. c. 671—631, who calls them Assedones (Fr. 94,ed. Welcker), and Hecataeus (, ed. Klau-sen). A great movement among the nomad tribes ofthe N. had taken place in very remote times, fol-lowing a direction from NE. to SW.; the Arimaspihad driven out the Issedones from the steppes overwhich they wandered, and they in turn droveout the Scythians, and the Scythians the Cim-merians. Traces of these migrations were indicatedin the poem of Aristeas of Proconnesus, a semi-mythical personage, whose pilgrimage to the land ofthe Issedones was strangely disfig
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