MYONNE´SUS
MYONNE´SUS (
Μυόννησος or
Μυόνησος), a promontory on the south-west of Lebedus, on the coast of Ionia, at the northern extremity of the bay of Ephesus.
It is celebrated in history for the naval victory there gained by the Romans under L. Aemilius over Antiochus the Great, in B.C. 190. (
Steph. B. sub voce Strab. xiv. p.643;
Thuc. 3.42;
Liv. 37.27.) Livy describes the promontory as situated between Samos and Teos, and as rising from a broad basis to a pointed summit.
There was an approach to it on the land side by a narrow path; while on the sea side it was girt by rocks, so much worn by the waves, that in some parts the over-hanging cliffs extended further into the sea than the ships stationed under them. On this promontory there also was a small town of the name of Myonnesus
[p. 2.387](Steplh. B., Strab
ll. cc.), which belonged to Teos.
The rocks of Myonnesus are now called
Hypsilibounos.
Pliny (
Plin. Nat. 5.37) mentions a small island of the name of Myonnesus near Ephesus, which, together with two others, Anthinae and Diarrheusa, formed a group called Pisistrati Insulae.
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