PITYU´SA
PITYU´SA (
Πιτυοῦσα or
Πιτυοῦσσα, a contr of
[p. 2.636]Πιτυόεσσα), literally, “abounding in pine-trees.”
1.
An island off the promontory Scyllaeum, or Bucephala, in Troezenia in Argolis. (
Paus. 2.34.8.) Pliny mentions (4.12. s. 19) an island Pityusa in the Argolic gulf, but from the order in which it occurs in Pliny, it would seem to be a different island from the preceding.
2.
One of the Demonnesi in the Propontis, according to Hesychius (s. v.). [
DEMONNESI]