Pliny the Elder, Natural History V 134/XXXVI, refers to an island called Cinaedopolis (Κιναιδό-πολις):
in Ceramico autem sinu Priaponesos, Hipponesos, Pserema,
Lampsa, Aemyndus,
Passala, Crusa, Pyrrhaeciusa, Sepiusa, Melano, paulumque a continente
distans quae vocata est Cinaedopolis probrosis ibi relictis a rege
Alexandro.
In the Ceramic Bay are Priaponesus, Hipponesus, Pserema, Lampsa,
Aemyndus, Passala, Crusa, Pyrrhaeciusa, Sepiusa, Melano, and at only a
small distance from the mainland the island named Cinaedopolis, because
certain persons of disgraceful character were deposited there by
Alexander the Great (Loeb translation).
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