Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . .), was built by the , in the Ionic style. In the time of thePiomans, JIagnesia was added to the kingdom ofPergamus, after Antiochus had been driven eastwardbeyond Mount Taunis. (Liv. sxxvii. 45, ) After this time the town seems to have decayed,and is rarely mentioned, though it is still noticedby Pliny (v. 31) and Tacitus (Ann. iv. 55).liierocles (p. 659) ranks it among the bishoprics ofAsia, and later documents seem to imply that at onetime it bore the name of Maeandropolis. ( iii. p. 666.) The existen
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . .), was built by the , in the Ionic style. In the time of thePiomans, JIagnesia was added to the kingdom ofPergamus, after Antiochus had been driven eastwardbeyond Mount Taunis. (Liv. sxxvii. 45, ) After this time the town seems to have decayed,and is rarely mentioned, though it is still noticedby Pliny (v. 31) and Tacitus (Ann. iv. 55).liierocles (p. 659) ranks it among the bishoprics ofAsia, and later documents seem to imply that at onetime it bore the name of Maeandropolis. ( iii. p. 666.) The existence of the townin the time of the emperors Aurelius and Gallienusis attested by coins. Formerly the site of JIagnesia was identified withthe modern Guzel-kissar ; but it is now generallyadmitted, that Inek-bazar, where ruins of the temple MAGNOPOLIS. of Ai-temis Leucophryene still exist, is the site ofthe ancient Magnesia, {h^^ke, Asia Minor, ,foil.; Arundell,Sere« Churches, pp. 58, foil.; Cramer,Asia Minor, vol. i. pp. 459, foil.). COIM OF MAGNESIA AD MAEANDRUM. 2. A town of Lydia, usually with the additionirphs or vTrh SnrvXift (ad Sipylum), to distinguishit from Magnesia on the JLaeander in Ionia, situatedon the north-western slope of Mount Sipylus, on thesouthern bank of the river Hermus. We are notinformed when or by whom the town was founded,but it may have been a settlement of the Magnesiansin the east of Thessaly. Magnesia is most celebratedin history for the victory gained under its wallsby the two Scipios in b. c. 190, over Antiochusthe Great, whereby the king was for ever drivenfrom Western Asia. (Strab. xiii. p. 622; Plin. ; Ptol. V. 2. § 16, viii. 17. § 16; Scylax, p. 37;Liv. xxxvii. 37, foil.; Tac. Ann. ii. 47.) The town,after the victory of the Scipios, surrendered to theRomans. (Appian, Sf/r. 35.) During the war againstMithridates the Magnesians defended themselvesbravely against the king. (Pans. i. 20. § 3.) Inthe reign of Tiberius, the town vvas
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