Tragia

TRA´GIA (Τραγία), also called Tragiae (Τραγίαι), Tragia, Tragaeae (Τραγαῖαι), or Tragaea (Τραγαία), a small island off the south coast of Samos, near which Pericles, in B.C. 440, defeated the Samians in a naval engagement. (Thucyd. 1.116; Plin. Nat. 4.71, 5.135; Plut. Per. 25; Strab. 13. p. 635; Steph. B. s. v. Τραγαία.) Respecting the Tragasaeae Salinae, see HALESION

TRA´GIA or TRAGAEA. [NAXOS 406a.]