(anc. geogr.), one of the Sporades (Dionysius); 30 miles in compass (Pliny); concerning which we read very little in authors. It was rendered famous by the exile of St John and the Revelation shewed him there. It is now in the hands of the Turks. It is considerable for its harbours; but the inhabitants derive little benefit from them, because the corsairs have obliged them to quit the town and retire to a hill on which St John's convent stands. This convent is a citadel, consisting of several irregular towers, and is a substantial building seated on a very steep rock. The whole island is very barren, and without wood; however, it abounds with partridges, rabbits, quails, turtles, pigeons, and snipes. All their corn does not amount to 1000 barrels in a year. It is 18 miles in circumference; and there are scarce 300 men in it: but there are above 20 women to one man, who expect that all strangers who land in the island should carry some of them away. To the memory of St John, is an hermitage on the side of a mountain, where there is a chapel not above eight paces long and five broad. Overhead they shew a chink in the rock, through which they pretend that the Holy Ghost dictated to St John. E. Long. 26. 40. N. Lat. 37. 20.