Hephaestia

• a city of Lemnos, Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 73; Liv. 33, 35, 2.

HEPHAE´STIA [LEMNOS]

HEPHAE´STIA the ancient name of the small island now called Comino, between Malta and Gozo. [MELITA; GAULOS.] (See Wesseling, Itiner. p. 518.) The island is about two miles long from NE. to SW., with a good channel on each side. It has always been, with Gozo, a dependency of Malta. To the SW. is a small rocky islet called Cominotto, of which the ancient name is unknown.

(Ἡφαιστία). (1) One of the two principal towns in the island of Lemnos, the other being Myrina (Herod.vii. 140).

(2) A deme of Attica belonging to the tribe Acamantis.

(Ἡφαίστεια). A festival at Athens, celebrated annually, in honour of Hephaestus. See Lampadephoria.