Cyrnus

Two mythical personages, from the one of whom the island of Cyrnus or Cyrne (Corsica) derived its name,1 and the other was regarded as the founder of Cyrnus, a town in Caria.2

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References

Notes

  1. Servius on Virgil's Eclogues ix, 30; Herodotus. Histories i, 167.
  2. Diodorus Siculus, v, 60.

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.