Temnus

TEMNUS (Τῆμνον ὄρος), a mountain range of Mysia, extending from Mount Ida eastward into Phrygia, and dividing Mysia into two halves, a northern and a southern one. It contained the sources of the Macestus, Mysius, Caicus, and Evenus. (Strab. 13. p. 616; Ptol. 5.2.13.) Hamilton (Researches, 2. p. 125) is inclined to believe that Mons Temnus is the same as the Ak Dagh, or, as it is commonly called in maps, Morad Dagh.

TEMNUS (Τῆμνος: Eth. Τημνίτης), a town of Aeolis in Asia Minor, not far from the river Hermus, situated on a height, from which a commanding view was obtained over the territories of Cyme, Phocaea, and Smyrna. (Strab. 13. p. 621.) From a passage in Pausanias (Paus. 5.13.4), it might be inferred that the town was situated on the northern bank of the Hermus. But this is irreconcilable with the statement that Temnus was 30 miles south of Cyme, and with the remarks of all other writers alluding to the place. Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.29) also seems to be mistaken in placing Temnus at the mouth of the Hermus, for although the deposits of the river have formed an extensive alluvial tract of land, it is evident that the sea never extended as far as the site of Temnus. The town had already much decayed in the time of Strabo, though it never appears to have been very large. (Xenoph. Hell. 4.8.5; Hdt. 1.149; Plb. 5.77, 20.25; Cic. pro Flace. 18) In the reign of Tiberius it was much injured by an earthquake (Tac, Ann. 2.47), and in the time of Pliny it had ceased to be inhabited altogether. Its site is commonly identified with the modern Menimen, though Texier, in his Description de l'Asie Mineure, looks for it at the site of the village of Guzal-Hissar. COIN OF TEMNUS.

(1) (τὸ Τῆμνον ὄρος). Now Demirdji Dagh; a mountain of Mysia, extending eastward from Ida to the borders of Phrygia, and dividing Mysia into two parts. It contains the sources of the Macestus, Mysius, Caïcus, and Evenus (Strabo, p. 616).

(2) Now Kayajik; a city of Aeolis, in the northwest of Lydia, thirty miles south of Cymé. It was nearly destroyed by an earthquake in the reign of Tiberius, and is not noticed by Pliny. Under the Byzantine Empire it was called Archangĕlus (Strabo, p. 621; Xen. Hell. iv. 8, 5; Herod. i. 149; Pol. v. 77; Tac. Ann. ii. 47).