TEOS, now called Iltidrem, a town of Ionia, situated on the south side of a peuinsula between the Gulf of Smyrna and the Gulf of Clazonieux, very near Cape Coerce, in 38' 15' N. lat., 26' 30' E. long. It was originally colonised by 3linyte from Orchomenus, and afterwards strengthened by colonies from Athena and Bcctotia. Tees was one of the twelve cities which formed the confederacy of the Panionium (Herod., i. 142). It was also one of the four cities of Ionia which participated in the Hellenium at Naucratia in Egypt, in the time of Amasis. (Herod., ii. 178.) On the conquest of Ionia by Cyrus the Teians retired to Abdera in Thrace, where they founded a colony which eclipsed the parent state. (Herod., I. 169.) At the battle of Lade 17 Teian ships are mentioned among the forces of the Greeks. Tees was the birthplace of Apellicon, the preserver of the works of Aristotle, and of Anacreon, who is represented on the coins of the city playing on his lyre. It appears from Livy (xxxvii. 23) that it had two ports, one in front of the city, which is now partly dry and choked up with sand; and the other, Germ, 4 miles to the north west, the entrance to which was so narrow as hardly to admit two ships at • time ; it is now the site of the castle and town of The site of Taos is now covered with olive-trecs and corn fields, divided by walls and hedgerows. The city walls, of which traces
are extant, were about 5 miles in circuit. Chandler found remains of the temple of Bacchus and a theatre, Hamilton mentions several other temples and ruins, and the mole of the city harbour, on which are still seen "reversl projecting stones terminating in a ring," for the purpose of mooring vessels to the quay. [Atus 311xon, vol. li., pp. 11 —17.] At a short distance east of Sigha-jik are the celebrated marble quarries, in which several gigantic blocks, chiselled and marked for some gradt building, still lie. The Teians believed that Bacchus was born there, and on his account their territory was sacred, or protected against violation.