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 CISSA, t tmill lawn «n the rinr Aegoa in tfas TlinuiiD Cberaonaiui. (Flm. It. IB.) It ii im- doubtedly the uma pUce u that ckllcd Cnsw (M'"ro)bjScjl»J(Cl>.28). MBmiert(viLp.lBl) beliCTa Clut it wu Ike umc plue u Atgoa, and identiBea it with the modem Gaiata. [L. S.] ■" crSSlA (Kwirla, Heod. Ui. 81, t, 49 ; PitJ. ri. 3. g 3 ; Elh. Klaaw), t, diMrict in Soiaxx, to both «d« of the Ghoupn ind Enluni, in which mof S(ui Tba I hibly conDKted with that of ths capitnL Stnbo (it. p. 728) itatea that tlte people of Susa wen also called Cisui, and oonnecta Ihe oame with Cisia, the mother of Memnm (Aeachjl. Peri. 17, 118), tik, and fumwd the aghth eatnp; of Dareina, It waa probably of nearly the Hme eitent u the mo- dem prorince of Klaaiil^n. TV-J CI'SSIDES (KwtrUtt) or CISSIDAE, a place on the oaiC of Ljcia, 80 Itadia eait of the ialaud La- gusa al(Hij{ the coast, according to the Stadiasmiu, and 85 tMt of Telmwoa. Leake (^Aaa Moor, p. laa) conclndea that "Ciwdea was the name of the peninaulaf promoDtoiy, on the eouth eide of which a the ieland and harinur of SI. Nichohie." The mint which he aaw on the cape and island be- longed lo a late period of the Roman em[dre. Fellowa (.Lyda, p. S4T) thinks that ■ place called by the Greeks Laviae, of which Maeri ii the port or icala, ii the site of Cisaido. [G. L.] CISSUS (KuTDiif: KhrriiitB), a mountam of Mwfdonia, on which were found the lion, ounce, I jni, panther, and bear. (Xenoph. De Vtnal, iL 1.) There was a town of the aame name not fal bam Rhaecelos, which appeare to have been the name of the pomontcry where Aeneas founded his citj. (Lj- cophr. 1S3B.) Ciiani, along with Aeneia and Cha- lastia, oentributed to people Thenalonira. (Stnb. Epit. liL p. 330; Dionjs. i. 48.) Klu>rliila is the only high mountun wluch can be conouTed to hare beoi the hacmt of (he beasti of pny menliiaiad b/ XeDo^oQ. (Leake, NorAtrn Greeet, toL liL p. 453.) [E.B.J.] CISTflE'NE(Ki 1. A town m the coast of Mjua,deaertedinStnbo'stime The G<»j;oneiaii plains rf Cisthene (Aeach. Pron. Find. T. T9S) are nnknown. 9. [Meoutb.] [G. L] CISTOBO'Cl (Ki "^^ (^ monnlaiQa, crnoH. niMnting Boeotia ftwn H^aris nd Atticai, ict. of AnL art. Daaiala.) Cithaenm waa also Mcred to Diooyani, and waa the ecene of sarsal celebntad legend), snch as the m^Mioirfbens of Actaecu, the death cf Penlhena, and the eipnnn of Oedipus. The famt, which corered Cithaom, abounded in game ; and at a yerj early period, bceis and wolvea are said to hate been fnnd then. The Lthaeronian lion, slam by Alcalhow, waa ceMvated mythology. (PBoa.i. 41. g 3.) CITHAKISTA, a place in the Haiitiine Itin. betweeu Telo Haniue (roWon) and MartaUe. Tin name which coreipmdB is CM<(e, bnt aa tki* pl« is above ■ mile livn the coast, the pott ia thai of Ciolat. [0. L.] CITHAKISTES, a pctmraitoty in the lonth of Gallia, placed by Ptolemy (ii. 10) between Tinro- ' L (TauraUi) andOlbia {Eotdiey, and the moet tm point on thia part of the anal. The pn>- ry then is Cop Ciciir near Toubm. Walck- makea it Cap Ceptl.tX the entnoce of the peat roiui of Toulon. Hela (iL S) mentione Citha- ■ iteo, and apparently intends to make it a town or ft It most thenfore be Cithariita. [G. I.] CITHARIZON (KiSofilimt-). ■ forUMe c* Armenia, four days' jonmey from Theodoaiopoiis, and in the province Asthuheitk (^AaSatrini) (Proo^ .,4edi 3. 3), prolably the same as the Avrrtnrra (Aa«- ■rii) of Ptolemy (v. 13). The ciladel, which I place of great streogth, wu bmlt by Jnslinian, was the neideDcs of one of the fiie prefivts n that emperor placed orcr Roman ArVKoia the title of " Dni." It has been identiSed with I, a town !» the banks of the Mmvd Cl^ or ranch of the Enphratea, when then b an old e piafed npon a mountain, cnwoing the Ufwn, (Ritlcr, Erdkimde, ml. z. p. TIS, li. pp. 76, 73; Jount. Gtog. Sbc. tdL z. p. 3G7.) [lH. B. J.] CITIUM (KiTior, VHrrar, K.irm : Elk. Ka- Ti(7i, KiTTioIn, Kn-roibi, CitienE, CiUensis), I, A town situated on the S.ixaut of Cypmi. InlhePea. tinger Tables it is called Cito, and is plaoni 34 U. P to the E. of Amathus. Diodoma (ix. 49) ia in error when he italea ita distance Inni Salamii aa SOO stadia, for it ia nun remote. The rtiins (^ ancient Citimn an found between LantUoa and tba port now called Saiinat to the E. then mu a large basin now ahnoat filled up, and de&mded by a fiiirt the foundations of which renuim ; this is pnUbly the irAfurrii Mfdi' of Strabo (xir. p.6Sa> Tba walls wen strong, and in the fcauKlationa FboB- nidan inscriptims npcm Ihem haTe been discoiend. A number of ancient tombs an atill to be seen in and about Lar^ka, *a well as the nmaina cf an ancient theatre. (Hariti, Viaggi, toI. L p. SI Pococke, Trav. vol. ii. p. 313 ; Mliller, ArciSti. % 355.) The salt lakia of which Piiny (u>i. 7 S.39: Antig. Caryst. Ifid. Jf wnt. c 173)spcakt, are still worked. The dale of this, pnbahlj the moBt ancient city in the ishmd, is not knoum, but there can be no doubt that it was oripnally Pho«' nidan, and connected with the ChiUim of the ScripCuna. (Geia. i. 4 ; coup. Joseph. Amti^. . 6 § 1 t Cic . KaMncsich,T.d.ii, P.28T.) [P.S.]