Identifier: dictionaryofgre02smit (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, William, (Sir) 1813-1893
Subjects: Geography, Ancient Classical geography
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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site as themodern Chieti, on a long ridge of hill stretchingfrom N. to S., though it must have been con-siderably more extensive. Of these the most im-portant are the ruins of a theatre, which musthave been of large size ; those of a large edificesupposed to have been a reservoir for water, andtwo temples, now converted into churches. One ofthese, now the church of S. Paolo, and considered,but without any authority, as a temple of Hercules,was erected by the Vettius Marcellus above noticed;the other, from the name of Sta Maria del Tri-cajlio which it bears, has been conjectured to havebeen dedicated to Diana Trivia. All these edifices,from the style of their construction, belong to theearly period of the Roman Empire. Besides these,numerous mosaics and other works of art have beendiscovered on the site, which attest the flourishingcondition of Teate during the first two centuriesof the Christian era. (RomanelH, vol. iii. pp. 104—109; Craven, Abruzzi, vol. ii. pp. 8,9.) (E. II. Ii.)
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COIN OF TEATE. TEBEXDA (TiGtvoa), a town in the interior ofPontus Galaticus (Ptol. v. 6. § 9), is no doubt thesame as the Tebenna mentioned by Anna Comnena(p. 364, B.) as situated in the vicinity of Tra-pezus. (L. S.) TECELIA (JfKtAio), a town placed by Ptolemy 1118 TECMON. (ii. 11. § 27) in the north of Germany, perhaps intne country of the Chauci, on the left bank of theVisurgis (Weser). Its site must probably belooked for near or at the village of Zetel, about 3miles from the western bank of the Weser. (Keichard,(,\ rmanien, p. 245.) (L. S.) TECMON (T4kiaoov; Eth. TeKfxdivios), a city ofMolossis in Epeirus, incorrectly called by StephanusB. a city of Thesprotia, taken by L. Auicius, theRoman commander, in b. c. 167. Leake supposesthat Guridnista, near Kurendo, about 20 miles tothe W. of Jodnnina, may have been the site of Tec-mon or Horreum, which Livy mentions in connectionwith Tecmon. (Liv. xlv. 26; Steph. B. s. v.; Leake,Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 83.) TECTOSACES (TeKr6(raKe

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