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 ?s» CYBEHE sft^pMtCaUiiudiiUiiibobiiuUd a dMMnt fron Um rojU bouae of Battiu, m did tbs ulaqnent rbdtoncUo Sjaesni, who kfUrwmrda becanw biibop of Apollooia. Tlw niiiu of Cjnn, tfaongh tenibly de&oed, T«r aoi- Toouded with water. The ruina are fullj described bf DeUaCelU (pp. 138, foil), Picho (pp. 191, Ul and Battb (p. 421, M.). Tbe ooina of CfreiK are nameroiu. In the eeoood rf the two spedmens bere anoeied the obverae re- inacote the head of Zena Anunoa ud the reiersa tbe ti^Aiwa, which fbnned the chief article in the eiport tntde <^ Cjicds. *• [P. Sl] CTBE'NE (Kw^Ht), ia one of towTM, which Slcphamia (j. f.) as: „ If Iheae nodcee of hie are true (tte 'AAvrf i, 'A^la), Uaaaalia had defeodeneies, ) in Sugdiana. According lo Anian, the rtTer nn tfantngh tbe middle of iC ICa fonndation was traditioradly attributed lo Cyroa, and it derired ita name firom being mppoaed to be on the extreme limila of that eonqneror'a empire. It enstained a memoi^le aiege, which ia tally narrated by Anian and Cnrtiaa, when Alexander the Great inraded Sogdlana, and waa eridently from their acconnta a place of conaidorable ■trenph. There can be no doubt that the difierent Bamn of Cyra, Cyropolie and Cyieschata represent one and the same town. WiLwn (.^runo, p. 165) liaa not been able to identi^ any mina with the lite of tfaia city. Derkelina in hia nctoi U> titeph. Byi boa attempted to ahnw that the name Cynschata is a corrup^on of Kyrtiserta, on the analogy of Tigra- nocerta and Volf^eaocerta; bat the derivation which Strabo (I, e.) baa given, scema to na the moet pro- bable. [V.] CYBRHESTICA. CTRETIAE (Xaprrtm, PtoL liL 13. $ 44: Etk. Kupernii, Kv^inut, /uer., Cyrefieuis), • town of Psrfaaelm in Thessaly, fiwineDtly mentioojd in the Roman ware in Gieere. It was fdandend by the Aetoliana, 8. a SOO (Ur. ^^^ 41), wm taken by Antiochoa, e. c. 191, bat recwend by U. Bae- binii and Philip in the lame year (ixxri. 10, 13), and waa occopaed by Peiaeas in B, c. 171 (ilii. fiS). It waa eitaated apon a imall tribatary of Iba TitiToiaa at the modem village of Ditmumio. Its acr^jolEs occnpied the hill, aa which now staoda the chnrch of St. George, aheie Loike fimnd ■erC' tal inecriptiana, ammg which ia a pnblic letto- in Greek, addresaed to the Tagi (magistrates) and dty of the Cyretieusea by T. Qninctiaa Flimininna, when he oxiimajided the Bnnan anniea in Greece. (Leake, Nortlitpn Greece, roL iv. p. 304.) CYKI CAUPUS (ri Kipoo malar), a [lain in Phrygia, the poution of which ia not nil described by Strabo (p. 6S9). Leake pUcea it in the upper valley of the Heimna, ncrth of the CataceiatimaK. Sea aim Hamilton (London Gtog. Jon. voL viii. p. 143). The place ia uncertain. [G. L.] CYRI CASTRA (t^ Kupeu o^porriirtaay). Strabo (p.SS9) eeema to mean that Hazaoi [Cai- SARSuJ ie 6 days' jouimy fran the Cilician Pylae and the Camp of Cyras, aa the paasage ttanda in Caaanbon's text. Xeoopbon [Amab. L 3. § SO) says that Cyras hailed at Dana for three days befoe be cTDased from Cappadocia into Cilida. Anian (^Ainb. ii.4. § 3) says that Alexander, advancing towards the CiliciaQ Pylae frun the north, "came to the en- campment of the Cyroa who was with Xsiopben;" ' ' e seemi to mean Dana. Cnrtiua (iiL 4) sayi, on hia niad to Cilida, Alexander came lo the country which ia called Caetra Cyrij and be adds that Cyrus had encamped there when he waa manJi- ing against Croeaaa, which ia a dngular blonder. He further Bays, that the Caetn ware 50 stadia fnvn the Cilician Pylaej bnt that ia nut trae, if Dana is Tyana. Aa Xenophon menUona no haltiiif;- place between Dana and the Pylae, Arrian, who has no anthori^ except Xanopboo's text, calls Dana Ibe Camp of CyroB. XenoidiOD doee net state the dis- tance between Dana and the Pylae. The paaaege in Cerritoiy of Caryatua. (Henid, ix. 105.) CTRCPOLISCKufiiioAit. PtoL vL S.§a. Tiii.Sl. §8i Amm. Maic ixiii. G),atown inUedia Atropatmr, between the rivers Cyma and Amaidas. Salmasiaa %!». p. B40) has denied the eepanta eiiitenn of this town, and contenda that It ia the same aa Cyreachata on the Jaxartea, aaeerting that Ihe autho- rity tf Ammianna is of no weight, aa be generally follows Ptolemy. There eeema, however, no gnat force in this argument, and, if there were aay dis- trict in which we might natoially expect to find a aty called after Cyras, il would anrelj be that with wluch he waa immediately mmected during Ids -rhohi lift. fv.l CYBRHE'STICA (Ku^^^^urf, PtoL v. 15 ; Polyb. V. 10 j DioD. Caae. ilii. SO : the rsdli^ Ku^iimint and KUfHomdj are erroce of the trau- eciibers j Cic ad Att. t. IB i Flin. v. 83 ; Tac '■ii.ii.S7: Eth. Ku^^treraX), a district of Sy- which appeara to have owed ita naioe to tb« kcedooian occupation of the omntry. It by
 * ween the plain of Antioch, and was bouidnl oa

the E. by the Eupbmtes, and on the W. by Amamis the S. it extaided aa fir aa