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LAMPSACUS , an See also:ancient See also:Greek See also:colony in See also:Mysia, See also:Asia See also:Minor, known as Pityusa or Pityussa before its colonization by Ionian Greeks from See also:Phocaea and See also:Miletus, was situated on the See also:Hellespont, opposite Callipolis (See also:Gallipoli) in See also:Thrace . It possessed a See also:good See also:harbour; and the neighbourhood was famous for its See also:wine, so that, having fallen into the hands of the Persians during the Ionian revolt, it was assigned by See also:Artaxerxes I. to See also:Themistocles to provide him with wine, as Percote did with See also:meat and See also:Magnesia with See also:bread . After the See also:battle of Mycale (479 B.C.), Lampsacus joined the Athenians, but, having revolted from them in 411, was reduced by force . It was defended in 196 B.C. against See also:Antiochus the See also:Great of See also:Syria, after which its inhabitants were received as See also:allies of See also:Rome . Lampsacus was the See also:chief seat of the See also:worship of See also:Priapus, a See also:gross nature-See also:god closely connected with the culture of the See also:vine . The ancient name is preserved in that of the See also:modern See also:village of Lapsaki, but the Greek See also:town possibly See also:lay at Chardak immediately opposite Gallipoli . See A . L . Castellan, Lettres sur la Moree, l'Hellespont, &c . (See also:Paris, 182o) ; See also:Choiseul See also:Gouffier, Voyage pittoresque clans l'See also:empire See also:ottoman (1842) . |
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