Hecatonnesi
Ἑκατόννησοι
Eth. Hecatonnesi (Ἑκατόννησοι: Musconisi), a group of islands in the bay of Adramyttium, between Lesbos and the mainland. Their name, apparently from ἕκατον, a hundred, seems only in a general was to allude to the great number of islands, which is stated by some to have been twenty, and by others forty. (Diod. 13.77; Steph. B. sub voce According to Strabo (xiii. p.618), however, the name Hecatonnesi signified the islands of Apollo,
from his surname Ἕκατος, the far-darter.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.