Mĭty̆lēne

and Hĭty̆lĕnæ , the capital city of the island of Lesbos, which receives its name from Mitylene the daughter of Mac are us, a king of the country. It was greatly commended by the ancients for the stateline of its buildings and the fruitfulne of its soil, but more particularly for the great men whom it produced. Pittacus, Alcæus, Sappho, Terpander, Theophanes, Hellenicus, . , were all natives of Mitylene. It was long a seat of learning, and, with Rhodes and Athens, it had the honour of having educated many of the great men of Rome and Greece. In the Peloponnesian war the Mityleneans suffered greatly for their revolt from the power of Athens; and, in the Mithridatic wars, they had the boldne to resist the Romans, and disdain the treaties which had been made between Mithridates and Sylla. Cicero , On the Agrarian Law .— Strabo , bk. 13 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 7 .— Diodorus , bks. 3 & 12.— Paterculus , bk. 1 , ch. 4 .— Horace , bk. 1 , ode 7, . — Thucydides , bk. 3 , . — Plutarch , Pompey , .