Samé
(
Σάμη) or
Samos (
Σάμος). The ancient name of Cephallenia. (See
Cephallenia.) It was also the name of one of the
four towns of Cephallenia. The town Samé or Samos was situated on the eastern
coast, opposite Ithaca, and was taken and destroyed by the Romans, B.C. 189 (
Livy, xxxviii. 28).