MAGNESIA, (anc. geog.), a maritime district of Thessaly, lying between the south part of the Sinus Thermaicus and the Pagasus to the south, and to the east of the Pelasgiotis. Magnetes, the people. Magnesus and Magnessus, the epithet, (Horace).
MAGNESIA ad Mæandrum, (anc. geog.), a town of Ionia, on the Meander, to distinguish it from another Magnesia at the foot of mount Sipylus. The former was one of the three towns given to Themistocles by Artaxerxes, with these words, to furnish his table with bread. A colony from the Magnesia of Thessaly, (Pliny); from Delphi, (Athenæus); from Lacedæmon, (Velleius); distant 15 miles from Ephesus to the east, (Pliny). It did not stand immediately on the Meander, being nearer the river Lethæus, which runs into the Meander, (Strabo). It is sometimes
mentioned without its distinguishing surname, as being more considerable than the other Magnesia, which is scarce ever without its surname ad Sipylum. Magnetes, the people.
MAGNESIA ad Sipylum, (anc. geog.), anciently Tantalus, the residence of Tantalus, and capital of Mæonia, where now stands the lake Sale. A town of Lydia, at the foot of mount Sipylus, to the east of the Hermus; adjudged free under the Romans; destroyed by earthquakes. (Strabo).