Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), M, Mesomēdes, Methōné

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Methōné

（Μεθώνη).

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A town at the southwest corner of Messenia, with an excellent harbour, protected from the sea by a reef of rocks, of which the largest was called Mothon.

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A town in Macedonia on the Thermaic Gulf, founded by the Eretrians, and celebrated from Philip having lost an eye at the siege of the place.

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Or Methāna, an ancient town in Argolis, situated on a peninsula of the same name, opposite the island of Aegina.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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