in Ancient Geography, an island in the Ionian sea, on the coast of Epirus; the country of Ulysses, near Dulichium, with a town and port situated at the foot of Mount Neius. According to Pliny it is about 25 miles in compass; according to Artemidorus only 10; and is now found to be only eight miles round. It is now uninhabited, and called Jativa.