(anc. geog.), an island of the Aegean sea, one of the Cyclades, with a strong cognominal town, 38 miles distant from Delos, (Pliny, Nepos). Anciently called Patye and Minos, (Pliny); also Demetrias, Zacynthus, Hyria, Hylecissa, and Cabarnis, (Nicanor). The country of Archilocheus, the Iambic poet, (Strabo). An island famous for its white marble, (Virgil, Horace, Ovid), called lychnites, because dug with lamps, (Pliny).