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 S88 MYRCINUS. meter, several public buildings, and numerous in- scribed sepulchres, some of which have inscriptions in the Lycian characters. But the place and its splendid ruins have since been minutely described by Sir C. Fellows (Discov. in Lycia, p. 196, &c.), and in Texier's work (Description de V Asie M ineure), ■where the ruins are figured in 22 plates. The theatre at Myra, says Sir Charles, is among the largest and the best built in Asia :Minor : much of its fine corridor and corniced proscenium remains. The number of tombs cut in the rock is not large, but they are generally veiy spacious, and consist of several chambers communicating with one another. Their external ornaments are enriched by sculptured statues in the rocks around ; but they are mostly without inscriptions (see the plate of one in Sir C. Fellows' Discov. facing p. 198, and numerous others in a plate facing p. 200). On the whole, the ruins of Myra are among the most beautiful in Lycia. (Comp. Spratt and Forbes, Travels in Lycia, vol. i. p. 131, &c.) [L- S.] MYECINUS (JAvpKivos, Steph. B.; yivpKit/vos, Tzetz. Chil. iii. 96 : £th. MupKLVios), a place be- longing to the Edoni, on the left bank of the Strymon, which was selected by Histiaeus of Miletus for his settlement. It offered great advantages to settlers, as it contained an abundant supply of timber for shipbuilding, as well as silver mines. (Herod, vii. 23.) Aristagoras retired to this place, and, soon after landing, perished before some Thra- cian town which he was besieging. (Herod v. 126; Thuc. iv. 102.) Afterwards, it had fallen into the hands of the Edoni ; but on the murder of Pittacus, chief of that people, it sun-endered to Brasidas. (Thuc. iv. 107.) The position of Myrcinus was in the interior, to the N. of M. Pangaeus, not far from Amphipolis. (Leake, Nortli. Greece, vol. iii. p. 181.) [E. B. J.] MYRIANDRUS. [Issus.] MYRICUS (Mupittoijs), a town on the coast of Troy, " opposite," as Steph. Byz. (s. v.) says, " to Tenedos and Lesbos," whence it is impossible to guess its situation. It is not mentioned by any other writer. [L. S.] MYRI'NA (MuptVa : Eth. Mvpivaios), one of the Aeolian cities on the western coast of Mysia, about 40 stadia to the south-west of Gryneium. (Herod, i. 149.) It is said to have been founded by one My- rinus before the other Aeolian cities (Mela, i. 18), or by the Amazon Myrina (Strab. xi. p. 505, xii. p. 573, xiii. p. 623; Diod. iii. 54). Artaxerxes gave Giy- neium and Myrina to Gongylus, an Eretrian, who had been banished from his native city for fiivouring the interests of Persia. (Xenoph. Hellen. iii. 1. § 4.) Myrina was a very strong place (Liv. xxxiii. 30), though not veiy large, and had a good harbour. (Scylax, p. 36 ; Agath. Praef. p. 9, ed. Bonn.) Pliny (v. 32) mentions that it bore the surname of Sebastopolis ; while, according to Syncellus, it was also called Smyrna. For some time Jlyrina was occupied by Philip of Macedonia; but the Romans compelled him to evacuate it, and declared the place free. (Liv. I. c. ; Polyb. xviii. 27.) It was twice visited by severe earthquakes ; first in the reign of Tiberius (Tac. Ann. ii. 47), on which occasion it received a remission of duties on account of the loss it had sustained ; and a second time in the reign of Trajan (Oros. vii. 12). The town was restored each time, and continued to exist until a late period. (Steph. Byz. s. v.; Ptol. v. 2. § 6; ApoUon. Rhod. i. 604; Hieiocl. p.661; Geogr. liav. v. 9, where it is MYSIA. called Myrenna, while in the Petit. Tab. it bears the name Marinna.) Its site is believed to be occupied by the modern Sandarlik. [L. S.] COIN OF MYRINA. in'KI'NA. [Lemnos.] JIYRINA. [Mycenae, No. 1.] MYRLEA. [Apameia, No. 4.] MYRME'CIUM (Mup^T^Kioi', Strab. xi. p. 494 ; Pomp. Mela, ii. 1. § 3 ; Plin. iv. 26 ; Anon. Peripl. p. 4 ; Steph. B.; Jornand. Get. 5), a Milesian colony on the Cimmerian Bosporus, 20 stadia N. of Pan- ticapaeum. (Strab. vii. p. 310.) Near the town was a promontory of the same name. (Ptol. iii. 6. § 4 ; Leo Diac. ix. 6.) It is the modern Yenikale or JenikaU, where many ancient remains have been found. (Clarke, Trav. vol. ii. pp. 98, 102 ; Dubois de Montpereux, Voyage au Caucase, vol. v. p. 231.) [E. B. J.] MYRJIEX (MupM'Jl, Ptol. iv. 4. § 15), an island off the coast of Cyrenaica, which is identified with the AusiGDA (^hvaiyoa) of Hecataeus (Fr. 300), where the charts show an islet, between Ptolemais and Phycus. [E. B. J.] MYRMI'DONES. [Aegina.] SIYRRHl'NUS. [Attica, p. 332, No. 95.] MYRSINUS. [Myrtuntium.] MY'RTILIS, surnamed Julia ('louAi'a MvpriAiy, Ptol. ii. 5. § 5), a town of the Turdetani in Lusi- tania, on the Anas, which had the Jus Latii; now Mertola. (Plin. iv. 21. s. 35 ; Mela, iii. 1; It. Ant. p. 431 ; Sestini, 3Ied. p. 11 ; Mionnet, Suppl. i. p. 8 ; Florez, Esp. Sagr. xiv. pp. 208, 238 ; Forbiger, iii. p. 36.) JIY'RTIUBI or MYRTETOIM Q/lvprwv, Mup. TTivuv), a place in Thrace mentioned by Demo- sthenes along vsrith Serrhium, but otherwise unknown (de Cor. p. 234). IiIYRTOS. [Aegaeum Mare.] MYRTO'UM MARE. [Aegaeum JLre.] MYRTU'NTIUM {UvpTovvnov), called Myrsi- NUS (Vivpaivos) by Homer, who mxentions it among the towns of the Epeii. It w.as a town of Ehs, and is described by Strabo as situated on the road from the city of Elis to Dyme in Achaia, at the distance of 70 stadia from the former place and near the sea. Leake remarks that the last part of the description must be incorrect, since no part of the road from Elis to Dyme could have passed by the sea ; but Cur- tius observes that Myrtuntium would at one time have been near the sea-coast, supposing that the la- goon of Kotiki was originally a gulf of the sea. The ruin near Kahkikos probably represents this place. (Hom. //. ii. 616 ; Strab. viii. p. 341 ; Steph. B. s v. Mvpaivos ; Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 1 69 ; Boblaye, Recherclics, <fc. p. 120 ; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 36.) MYSARIS (Murrapi's al Miaapis, Ptol. iii. 5. § 8), the W. promontory of the Achilleos Dor- MOS. [E. B. J.] MY'SIA (Muffi'a : Eth. Mvads, Mysus), the name