XY´NIA
XY´NIA or
XY´NIAE (
Ξυνία: Eth.
Ξυνιεύς), a town near the southern confines of Thessaly, and the district of the Aenianes (
Liv. 33.3), which gave its name to the lake Xynias (
Ξυνίας), which Stephanus confounds with the Boebeis (
Apollon. 1.67; Catull. 63.287;
Steph. B. sub voce Ξυνία). Xynia, having been deserted by its inhabitants, was plundered by the Aetolians in B.C. 198 (
Liv. 32.13).
In the following year Flamininus arrived at this place in three days' march from Heraclea (
Liv. 33.3; comp.
Liv. 39.26).
The lake of Xynias is now called
Tauklí, and is described as 6 miles in circumference.
The site of the ancient city is marked by some remains of ruined edifices upon a promontory or peninsula in the lake. (Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. i. p. 460, vol. iv. p. 517.)
