Cytæis, a surname of Medea, from her being an inhabitant of Cyta. Propertius, bk. 2, poem 4, li. 7.
Cythēra, now Cesigo, an island on the coast of Laconia in Peloponnesus. It was particularly sacred to the goddess Venus, who was from thence surnamed Cytheræa, and who rose, as some suppose, from the sea, near its coasts. It was for some time under the power of the Argives, and always considered as of the highest importance to maritime powers. The Phœnicians had built there a famous temple to Venus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 1, li. 262; bk. 10, li. 5.—Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 33.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 4, li. 288; bk. 15, li. 386; Fasti, bk. 4, li. 15.—Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 29.
Cythĕræa, a surname of Venus.
Cythēris, a certain courtesan, much respected by the poet Gallus, as well as by Antony.
Cythēron. See: [Cithæron].
Cythērun, a place of Attica.
Cytherus, a river of Elis. Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 22.
Cythnos, now Thermia, an island near Attica, famous for its cheese. It has been called Ophiousa and Dryopis. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 5, li. 252.
Cytineum, one of the four cities called Tetrapolis in Doris. Strabo, bk. 9.—Thucydides, bk. 1, ch. 107.
Cytissorus, a son of Phryxus, &c. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 197.