Cyllenius

A surname of Hermes, which he derived from Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, where he had a temple,1 or from the circumstance of Maia having given birth to him on that mountain.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 17.1.
  2. Virgil. Aeneid viii, 139 ff.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.