Ionia, A region in Greece of Asia, wherein were the cities of Ephesus, Miletus, Priena, and other, and the people thereof be called lones, and the tongue Ionica, and the sea ioyning to it Mare Ionicum.
Īōnĭus, a, um, adj., = *)iw/nios or *)io/nnios,of or belonging to Ionia, Ionian: attagen, Plin. 10, 48, 68, 133: Ionium mare (or poet. aequor), or Ionii fluctus, Ionius sinus; or subst.: Ionium, i, n., the Ionic Sea, in the west of Greece: mare, Mel. 1, 3, 3; Plin. 3, 8, 14, 88; Liv. 23, 33, 22; Verg. A. 5, 193: aequor, Ov. M. 15, 700: fluctus, Verg. G. 2, 108: sinus, Hor. Epod. 10, 19; and simply Ionium: insulae Ionio in magno, Verg. A. 3, 211: per Ionium vectus, Prop. 3 (4), 21, 19 (but Ionia is a false reading for Jovis, Plin. 37, 7, 29, 103).—II.Subst.: Ĭōnĭa, ae, f., = *)iwni/a,Ionia, a country of Asia Minor on the Ægean Sea, between Caria and Æolis, Mel. 1, 17; 2, 7, 4; Plin. 5, 29, 31, 112; Nep. Alc. 5, 6; Prop. 1, 6, 31; Ov. F. 6, 175 al.