LEBEDOS, reckoned among the twelve ancient cities of Ionia, was situated to the south of Smyrna. It was the residence of stage-players, and the place where they met from all parts of Ionia, as far as the Hellespont, and celebrated annual games in honour of Bacchus, (Strabo). It was overthrown by Lysimachus, who removed the inhabitants to Ephesus; scarce ever after recovering itself, and becoming rather a village than a town, (Horace).