TISAEUM
TISAEUM (
Τισαῖον:
Bardjóia). a lofty mountain on the promontory of Aeantium in Magnesia in Thessaly, at the entrance of the Pagasaean gulf, on which stood a temple of Artemis, and where in B.C. 207 Philip V., son of Demetrius, caused watch-fires to be lighted, in order to obtain immediate knowledge of the movements of the Roman fleet. (
Apollon. 1.568; Val. Place. 2.6;
Plb. 10.42;
Liv. 28.5; Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 397.)
T1SCANUS (Jornand.
Get. 5), or TYSCA (
Ib. 34; Geogr. Rav. 4.14); a river in Thrace, a tributary of the Danube, the modern
Theiss. [
T.H.D]