a small island off the coast of the Troas, from which it is about 5 miles distant, 12 miles S.W. of Cape Sigeum. It is only 10 miles in circuit, but contained in ancient times a city with two harbours, and is celebrated both by poets and philosophers for the wisdom of its laws and institutions. It was also at one time an important naval station, on account of its position near the mouth of the Hellespont. But Tenedos will always be most closely associated with the Homeric poems, in which it is frequently mentioned, and in which Apollo is invoked as the god who rules Tenedos with might. Virgil, again, describes its once famous port as "Nunc tantum sinus et statio male fida carinis."