Cylbiani, mountains of Phrygia where the Gayster takes its rise. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 29.
Cylices, a people among the Illyrians. There was in their country a monument in honour of Cadmus. Athenæus.
Cylindus, a son of Phryxus and Calliope.
Cyllabaris, a public place for exercises at Argos, where was a statue of Minerva. Pausanias, Corinthia.
Cyllabărus, a gallant of the wife of Diomedes, &c.
Cyllărus, the most beautiful of all the Centaurs, passionately fond of Hylonome. They perished both at the same time. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 12, li. 408.——A celebrated horse of Pollux or of Castor, according to Seneca. Virgil, Georgics, bk. 3, li. 90.
Cyllen, a son of Elatus. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 4.
Cyllēne, the mother of Lycaon by Pelasgus. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 8.——A naval station of Elis in Peloponnesus. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 23.——A mountain of Arcadia, with a small town on its declivity, which received its name from Cyllen. Mercury was born there; hence his surname of Cylleneius, which is indiscriminately applied to anything he invented, or over which he presided. Lucan, bk. 1, li. 663.—Horace, epode 13, li. 13.—Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 17.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 8, li. 139.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 13, li. 146; Ars Amatoria, bk. 3, li. 147.
Cyllēnēius, a surname of Mercury, from his being born on the mountain of Cyllene.
Cyllyrii, certain slaves at Syracuse. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 155.