A classical dictionary / containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table

by John Lemprière

Cercăphus, a son of Æolus.——A son of Sol, of great power at Rhodes. Diodorus, bk. 5.

Cercasōrum, a town of Egypt, where the Nile divides itself into the Pelusian and Canopic mouths. Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 15.

Cercēis, one of the Oceanides. Hesiod, Theogony, li. 355.

Cercēne, a country of Africa. Diodorus, bk. 2.

Cercestes, a son of Ægyptus and Phœnissa. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 1.

Cercides, a native of Megalopolis, who wrote iambics. Athenæus, bk. 10.—Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 13.

Cercii, a people of Italy.

Cercina and Cercinna, a small island of the Mediterranean, near the smaller Syrtis, on the coast of Africa. Tacitus, bk. 1, Annals, ch. 53.—Strabo, bk. 17.—Livy, bk. 33, ch. 48.—Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 7.——A mountain of Thrace, towards Macedonia. Thucydides, bk. 2, ch. 98.

Cercinium, a town of Macedonia. Livy, bk. 31, ch. 41.

Cercius and Rhetius, charioteers of Castor and Pollux.