Numismata hellenica: a catalogue of Greek coins; with notes, a map ...

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wards by Pleminius, the lieutenant of P. Scipio; the
Dioscuri there venerated for their assistance in defeating
the Crotoniatae, Eu. 126, 127.
Lopadusa, now Lampedosa, its coins, Ins. 80.
Lucani, their territory in the interior of the south-western
part of Italy ; resemblance of their coins, which were
struck probably at Potentia (Potenza), to those of their
neighbours the Brettii, Eu. 127-
Luceria (Daunise), now Lucera, said to have been founded
by Dioraedes; occupied by a Roman colony in 314 B.C.,
Eu. 127.
Lunus (M^i') worshipped in many parts of Asia Minor,
and figured on the coins. As. 20.
tem-
Lycseum, Mount, called Olympus by the Arcadians ;
ples of Jupiter Lycseus and Pan upon it, Eu. 17-
Lycaonia, its numismatic poverty ; no coins of it extant
but those of Iconium, Coropissus, and Savatra, As. 69.
Lycia, specimens of its written local language on coins
and in inscriptions; the language still in use in the
time of Strabo, As. 28 : though not written after the
reign of Augustus, As. 76.
Lycosura, sanctuary of Despoena at that place, Eu. 16 :
the earlier Arcadian silver there struck, Eu. 17.
Lycus, a tributary of the Caicus, on which stood Acra-
sus. As. 3.
a tributary of the Maeander, typified by the wolf
on some of the coins of Laodiceia Phrygiae, As. 73.
Lydia, its language probably the same as the Phrygian,
As. 28 : the art of coining money there invented, according
to Herodotus, K. 52 : its coinage more ancient
than that of the Greek cities of Asia; the Persian an
imitation of it ; its standard weight derived from Phoe-
nicia, and originally from Egypt, 1], 2].
Lysanias of Abila put to death by M. Antonius to gratify
Cleopatra, As. 76.
Lysias, coins of a king of Bactria of that name, K. 56.
(Phrygiae) situated to the north-east of Eumeneia
(Ishekli), As. 77.
Lysimachia (Thraciee) near or at Cardia; its types of a
lion's head and a grain of barley common to it with
Crithote, Cherronesus, and Cardia, Eu. 64.
Lysimachus, king of Thrace, commencement of his reign
in Macedonia in 286 b.c, K. 11 : defeated and slain at
Corns by Seleucus I. in 281 e.g., K. 12: resemblance
of a coin of Pserisades, king of Bosporus, to those of
this prince, K. 65 : Colophon Ionise destroyed by him,
As. 44 : Lysimachia Thraciae founded by him, Eu. 64.
Lyttus (Cretae)
in alliance with the Arcades of Crete in
221 B.C., Ins. 4 : considerable remains of it at Lytto,
Ins. 24.
M.
Macedonia divided into four regions by Lucius jEmilius
PauUus ; coins extant of three of these regions ; made
a Roman province twenty years after; Claudius the
earliest name occurring on its imperial coins, Eu. 65 : the
scale of weight of its ancient silver coinage perhaps
Euboic; its gold stater an equiponderant of the silver
stater of Corinth ; the scale of its silver money made
to conform to the Athenian by Alexander the Great, 4].
Macella (Siciliae), now Rocca Busamara, taken by the
Romans under DuiUus in the first Punic war, Ins. 62.
Macestus, Ancyra Phrygiae and the city of the Abbaitae
situated on this river. As. 1 .
Maeander symbolized on the coins of the cities on its banks.
As. 20. 77. 102.
INDEX TO THE NOTES.
Maeonia (Lydiae), its ancient name preserved to the north
of Philadelpheia (Alah-sheher), As. 77.
Magas, king of Cyrene, half-brother of Ptolemy II. and
father-in-law of Ptolemy III. of Egypt, K. 60.
Magnesia (loniae sive ad Maeandrum), now Inekbazar;
ruins of its temple of Diana Leucophrys extant ; the
horseman on its coins allusive to its being a Thessalian
colony, and the gibbous bull
As. 77, 78.
a type of the Maeander,
(Lydia sive ad Sipylum)
name, As. 79 See Sipylus.
preserves its ancient
—— (Thessaliae), no city of this name ; the coins
Tuiv Mayvr]Tu>v struck at Demetrias, Eu. 67 : with types
on them allusive to the Centaurs and the worship of
Bacchus, Eu. 68.
Magnetes, this people driven out of the valley of the Maeander
by the Treres, and restored by the Milesii, As. 135.
Magydus (Pamphyliae), now Laara, a few miles east of
Attaleia, As. 79, 80.
Malienses (Thessaliae), position of their
territory ; names
of their three tribes ; Lamia their chief
city, Eu. 68.
Mallus (Ciliciae) situated on a hill eighteen geographical
miles above the mouth of the river Pyramus, As. 80 :
Mopsus and Amphilochus its reputed founders. As. 84 :
some coins of Demetrius II. of Syria there struck, K.
30.
Mamertini, Messana seized by them in 280 b.c, and still
retained in the time of Augustus; position of their
former territory and origin of their name, Ins. 62, 63.
Mampsista or Mansista. See Mopsium Ciliciae.
Mantineia (Arcadiae), its coins as a member of the Achaian
League, Eu. 3 : its name changed to Antigoneia after
its capture in 222 b.c by Antigonus Doson, but again
altered to Mantineia in the reign of Hadrian, Eu. 68 :
its types relative to Neptune and the mythus of Callisto
and Areas, Eu. 69 : remarks on the acorn upon its
coins; its original wooden temple of Neptune in existence
at the time of Pausanias, Eu. 161.
Maratbus (Phoeniciae) an ancient Phoenician city; Phcenician
legends on its coins ; ruined in the time of Strabo,
and its territory occupied by the Aradii, As. 80.
Marcianopolis (Moesiae Inferioris) so called from a sister
of Trajan ; the greatest city of the province in the fifth
situated eighteen Roman miles west of Odessus
century ;
(Varna), probably at Paravadi, Eu. 69.
Maroneia (Thraciae), its remains still so called; formerly
named Ismarus, from the mountain ; the types of its
coins relative to the worship of Bacchus (see Homer,
II. iv. 197), Eu. 70.
Marsala. See Lilybaeum.
Marsyas, a branch of the Maeander, its sources in the
agora of Celaenae, As. 22.
Massalia (Galliae) a colony of Phocaea; its temples of
Diana Ephesia and of Apollo Delphinius ; the types
of its coins in agreement \vith them, Eu. 71.
Massicytus (Lyciae) on a mountain of the same name.
As. 81.
Mastaura (Lydiae), its ancient name still preserved ;
situated on a tributary of the Maeander named Chrysorrhoas
; its ruins and coins of Roman times ; its name
derived from the goddess Ma (Rhea), As. 81.
Mausolus or Maussollus, son and successor of Hecatomnus
of Halicarnassus, As. 63.
Mazaca. See Caesareia Cappadociae.
Megalopolis (Arcadise) its coins similar in style, type, and
weight to the later coins of Arcadia, which were struck
at Megalopolis, Eu. 17. 72 : its coins as member of the
Achaian League, Eu. 4.
Megara, the types of its coins allusive to the mythus of