Tisaeum

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. 4. 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.

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