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LEPETYMNOS (Mountain) MYTILINI
Lepetymnus (Lepetumnos, called Lepethymnus or Lepethymus by Pliny,
v. 31. s. 39; the MSS. vary), a mountain in the northern part of Lesbos, near
Methymna. Plehn states (Lesbiac. Lib. p. 9) that it is the highest mountain in
the island: but this does not appear to be consistent with modern surveys. Its
present name is said to be Mont S. Theodore. The sepulchre and tomb of the hero
Palamedes are alleged to have been here. (Tzetzes, Lycophr. Cassandr. 1095; Philostr.
Heroic. p. 716, Vit. Apollon. Tyan. iv. 13. 150, also 16. 154.) In Antigonus of
Carystus (c. 17) there is a story given, on the authority of Myrsilus the Lesbian,
concerning a temple of Apollo and a shrine of the hero Lepetymnus, connected with
the same mountain. Here, also, according to Theophrastus (De Sign. Pluv. et Vent.
p. 783, ed. Schneid.), an astronomer called Matricetas made his observations.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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