Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . llenicremains exist at this site, there can be no donlitthat Titane is represented by the more situated further S., and a few minutesN. of the village of Voitwnda. This Pahokiistronstinds upon a projecting spur of the mountainswhich run eastward towards the Aso])us, and ter-minate just above the river in a small hill, whichis surrounded by beautiful Hellciuc walls, rising tothe height of 20 or 30 ft. ou the S. and SW. side, TLOS. i-2n and flanked by three or four quadrangular this hill there stands a chapel of St. Trv
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . llenicremains exist at this site, there can be no donlitthat Titane is represented by the more situated further S., and a few minutesN. of the village of Voitwnda. This Pahokiistronstinds upon a projecting spur of the mountainswhich run eastward towards the Aso])us, and ter-minate just above the river in a small hill, whichis surrounded by beautiful Hellciuc walls, rising tothe height of 20 or 30 ft. ou the S. and SW. side, TLOS. i-2n and flanked by three or four quadrangular this hill there stands a chapel of St. Trvphon,containing fragments of Doric columns. Tliis wasevidently the acropolis of the ancient city, and herestood the temple of Athena mentioned by other parts of this projecting ridge are coveredwith ancient foundations ; and uixjn this pitrt of themountain the temple of Asclepius must have stood.(Leake, Morea, vol. iii. p. 354, seq.; , ReLienim Peloponnes, p. 49, seq.; Curtius, Pe?oyjo«n&.vw,vol. ii. p. 500, seq.). PLAN OF TITANIC. A. Village of rononrfd. 1. Acrojiolis of Iitane. 2. Tejiiple of Asclepius and surrounding liuildlngs. TITANUS. [ TITAKESIUS. [Thessaua, p. 1106, a.] TITAKUS. [, p. 1166, TITHOWEA. [Nf;oN.] TITHKONIUM (Tiepd>viov : Eth. TiOpaivievs).a frontier town of Phocis, on the side of Doris. Livy,who calls it Tritonon, describes it as a towji of Doris(xxviii. 7), but all other writers place it in was destroyed by the army of Xerxes togelherwith the other Phocian towns. It is placed by Pau-sanias in the plain at the distance of 15 stadia fromAmphicleia. The site of Tithronium is ]]rolial)ly in-dicated by some ruins at Midkl below Vnrzand, wherea torrent unites with the Cephissus. (llerod. ; Pans. x. 3. § 2, x. 33. §11; Steph. B. s. v.\Leake, Northern Greece, toI. ii. j). 87.) TITTHIUM. [EiiDAUHUs, p. 841, a.] TTTULCIA, a town of the Carpetaui in llis-pania Tarraconensis, on the road from Emerita to
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