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 TENEDOS. Denkwilrfh'f/keiten, i. p. Ill, foil.; Hemmcr, Hes- publica Teuedioi-um, Hafniae, 1735.) [L. S.] TKNTYIIA. 1127 COIN OF TENEDOS. TEXEDOS (TeVeSos: Eth. TeviZiis), a fortified coast-town in the west of Pamphylia, 20 stadia to the we.st of Attalia. (Stepli. B. s. v.; Stadiusm. Mm: M. §§ 224, 225.) It has been conjectured that this town is the same as Olbia, the remains of which are exactly 20 stadia from Attalia, and that one of the two names was I-ycian and the other Greek. (Miiller, ad Stadmsm. p. 490.) [L. S.] TENE'RICUS CAMPUS. [Boeoth, p. 413, b.] TE'NESIS REGIO (TTji/eai's, Strab. xvi. p. 770), was, according to Strabo, who alone mentions it, an inland province of Aethiopia, lyinE; due E. of the Sabae, and not far distant from the kingdom or city of Meroe. Tenesis was governed, at least when Strabo wrote, by a queen, who was also the sovereign if Meroe. This was one of the many districts of Aethiopia assigned by rumour to the Automoli, Sembritae, or Aegyptian war-caste, who abandoned their native country in the reign of Psammetichus [Sembritae]. The lake Coloe and the sources of the Astapus are by some geographers placed in Tonesis. It was an alluvial plain bounded on the !•;. by the Abyssinian Highlands, and frequented by ele])hants. rhinoceroses, &c. [W. B. D.] TENOS (Trtvos : Eth. T-nvtos : Tlno), an island in the Aegaean sea, and one of the Cyclades, lying lietween Andros and Delos, distant from the former 1 mile and from the latter 15 miles. (Plin. iv. 12. s. 22.) It stretches from NW. to SE., and is 15 miles long according to Pliny (/. c), or 150 stadia according to Scylax (p. 55). It was also called llydrussa (^TSpovacra, 'TSpueaffa) from the number of its springs, and Ophiussa because it abounded in Miakes. (I'lin. I.e.; Mela, ii. 7. §11; Steph. B. • . r.) The sons of Boreas are said to have been iiin in this island by Hercules. (Apoll. Ehod. i. 1304, with Schol.) In the invasion of Greece by Xerxes, the Tenians were compelled to serve in the Persian fleet ; but a Tenian trireme deserted to the Greeks immediately before the battle of Sa- laniis (i5. c. 480), and accordingly the name of the Tenians was inscribed upon the tripod at Delphi in the list of Grecian states which had overthrown the Perjians. (Herod, viii. 82.) Pausanias relates that the naine of the Tenians was also inscribed on the statue of Zeus at Olympia among the Greeks who liad fought at the battle of Plataca (v. 23. § 2). The Tenians afterwards formed part of the Athenian maritime empire, and are mentioned among the sub- ject allies of Athens at the time of the Sicilian ex- pedition (Thuc. vii. 57). They paid a yearly tribute of 3r)(J0 drachmae, from which it may be inferred that they enjoyed a considerable share of l)rosperity. (Franz, Elem. Epif/r. (Jr. No. 49.) Alexander of I'herae took pestession of Tenos for a time (Dem. c. Pulyd. p. 1207) ; and the island was aftei-wards granted by M. Antoiiius to the Khodians (Appian, B. C. v. 7.) After the con- quest of Constau-tinople by the Latins, Tenos fell to the share of the Venetians, and remained in their hands long after their other po.ssessions in the Aegaean had been taken by the Turks. It waa ceded by Venice to the Sultan by the peace of Pas- sarovitz, 1718. It is still one of the most pros- perous islands in the Aegaean, and the inhabitants are remarkable for their industry and good conduct. The present population is about 15,000 souls, of whom more than half are Catholics, — a circum- stance which, by bringing them into closer con- nection with western Europe, has contributed to their prosperity. The ancient city of Tenos, of the same name as the island, stood at the south-western end upon the same site as St. Nicolaos, the present capital. Scy- lax says that it possessed a harbour, and Strabo describes it as a small town. (Scyl. p. 22 ; Strab. X. p. 487 ; Ptol. iii. 14. § 30.) In the neighbour- hood of the city there was a celebrated temple of Poseidon situated in a grove, where festivals were celebrated, which were much frequented by all the neighbouring people. (Strab. I. c. ; Tac. A7m. iii. 63; Clem. /';-o?r. p. 18 ; B<5ckh, /«sct. No. 232!», 2331.) The attributes of Poseidon appear on the coins of Tenos. There was another town in the island named Eriston (^HpLarov ; BiJckli, J7tsc): 2336, 2337), which was situated in the inteiior at the village of Komi. Among the curiosities of Tenos was mentioned a fountain, the water of which would not mix with wine. (Allien, ii. p. 43, c.) The island was celebrated in antiquity for its fine garhc. (Aristoph. Pint. 18.) Tli'e chief modem production of the island is wine, of which the best kind is the celebrated Malvasia, which now grows only at Tenos and no lont'er at Munemhuiiia in Peloponnesus, from which place it derived its name. (Tournefort, Voyaye, tf-c. vol. i. p. 271, transl.; Exped. Scieniif. vol. iii. p. 2; Fiedler, Reke, vol. ii. p. 241, seq. ; Finlay, Hist, oj Greece under Othonian and Vemtian Domination, pp. 276, 287 ; and especially Boss, Reise aiif dm Griech. Inseln. vol. i. p. 11, seq., who cites a mo- nograph, JIarcaky Zallony, Voyaye a Tine, I'mie des lies de I'Archipd de la Grece, Paris, 1809.) COIN OE TENOS. TE'XTVKA or TE'NTYBIS (to TfVrupa. Strain xvii. ].. 814; Ptol. iv. 5. §§ 6. 8; Steph. B. *•. r.: Etii. TecTu/n'TTjj), the Coptic Tentort- and the mo- dern Jhmkruh, was the capital of the Tentyrite Nome in Upper Aegypt (Agutharch. op. Phot, p.447, ed. Bekker). It was situated in hit. 26° 9' X., on the western bank of flie Nile, about 38 miles N. of Thebes. The name of the city was probably de- rived from the prineip.al object of worslii]) there — the goddess Athor (Ajihrodile), Ijcing a contracleil form of Thy-n-Athor or abode of Athor. The liie- ruglypliic legend of the genius of the place contaiiia 4 c 4