Book 14
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Then follows Lebedos,Lebedigli Lebeditz hissar. distant from Colophon 120 stadia. This is the place of meeting and residenceDuring the season when these actors, dancers, and singers were not on circuit at festivals. of the Dionysiac artists (who travel about) Ionia as far as the Hellespont. In Ionia a general assembly is held, and games are celebrated every year in honour of Bacchus. These artists formerly inhabited Teos,Budrun. a city of the Ionians, next in order after Colophon, but on the breaking out of a sedition they took refuge at Ephesus; and when Attalus settled them at Myonnesus,Ouvriokasli. between Teos and Lebedos, the Teians sent a deputation to request the Romans not to permit Myonnesus to be fortified, as it would endanger their safety. They migrated to Lebedos, and the Lebedians were glad to receive them, on account of their own scanty population.
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Teos is distant from Lebedos 120 stadia. Between these two places is the island Aspis,Ypsilo Nisi. which some writers call Arconnesus. Myonnesus is situated upon high ground resembling a peninsula.
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Teos is situated upon a peninsula, and has a port. Anacreon, the lyric poet, was a native of this place; in his time, the Teians, unable to endure the insults and injuries of the Persians, abandoned Teos, and removed to Abdera, whence originated the verse— Abdera, the beautiful colony of the Teians. Some of them returned in after-times to their own country. We have said that Apellicon was of Teos, and Hecataeus also, the historian.
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There is another port to the north, at the distance of 30 stadia from the city, Gerrhaeïdae.Called by Livy, xxvii. 27, Portus Geraesticus.
