Τένεδος

Tenedos: Tenedos, an island of the Sporades, as Hecataeus, in the Hellespont. From Tenes and Amphithea or Hemithea, the children of Kyknos, as it were 'Tenouedos'. It was also called 'Leukophrys'; the citizen 'Tenedios', as 'Aradios', 'Rhodios'. There is also a city Tenedos near Lycia. But Apollodorus says it is of Pamphylia. And a proverb, "Tenedian flute-player", for those bearing false witness. For Phylonome brought the flute-player to Kyknos, testifying that Tenes wished to violate her. There is also another proverb, "Tenedian axe", for those who cut off disputes and other matters either harshly or rather summarily. And Aristides and others say that Apollo in Tenedos holds an axe because of what happened to Tenes and his family. Or rather, as Aristotle says in the Constitution of the Tenedians, that a certain king in Tenedos laid down a law that whoever caught adulterers should kill both with an axe. And when it happened that his own son was caught in adultery, he ordained that the law be observed even for his own son, and when he was killed the matter passed into a proverb for things done cruelly. For this reason, he says, on the coinage of the Tenedians there is stamped on one side an axe and on the other two heads, in memory of what happened to the son. There is also another proverb, "Tenedian advocate", the abrupt and harsh man. Apollodorus in the Catalogue of Ships says that those of Pamphylia are Tenedeis, those of the island 'Tenedioi'. And in the feminine 'Tenedia'.