Chrysa and Chryse, a town of Cilicia, famous for a temple of Apollo Smintheus. Homer, Iliad, bk. 1, li. 37.—Strabo, bk. 13.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 13, li. 174.——A daughter of Halmus, mother of Phlegias by Mars. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 36.
Chrysăme, a Thessalian, priestess of Diana Trivia. She fed a bull with poison, which she sent to the enemies of her country, who ate the flesh, and became delirious, and were an easy conquest. Polyænus.
Chrysantas, a man who refrained from killing another, by hearing a dog bark. Plutarch, Quæstiones Romanæ.
Chrysanthius, a philosopher in the age of Julian, known for the great number of volumes which he wrote.
Chrysantis, a nymph who told Ceres, when she was at Argos with Pelagus, that her daughter had been carried away. Pausanias, bk. 1.
Chrysaor, a son of Medusa by Neptune. Some report that he sprung from the blood of Medusa, armed with a golden sword, whence his name, χρυσος ἀορ. He married Callirhoe, one of the Oceanides, by whom he had Geryon, Echidna, and the Chimæra. Hesiod, Theogony, li. 295.——A rich king of Iberia. Diodorus, bk. 4.——A son of Glaucus. Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 21.
Chrysaoreus, a surname of Jupiter, from his temple at Stratonice, where all the Carians assembled upon any public emergency. Strabo, bk. 4.
Chrysaŏris, a town of Cilicia. Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 2.
Crysas, a river of Sicily, falling into the Simæthus, and worshipped as a deity. Cicero, Against Verres, Speech 4, ch. 44.
Chryseis, the daughter of Chryses. See: [Chryses].