PSYRA
PSYRA (
Ψμρά), a small island in the Aegean sea, to the north-west of Chios, at a distance of 50 stadia from Cape Melaenae in Chios, and having only 40 stadia in circumference.
It was a lofty, rocky island, and contained on its south-east coast a small town of the same name. (
Strab. xiv. p.645;
Plin. Nat. 5.36;
Steph. B. sub voce Hom. Od. 3.171.) Its modern name is
Ipsara. [
L.S]