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1659 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter C
   When M. Cicero was proconsul of Cilicia, he led his troops southwards towards the Taurus through that part of Cappadocia which borders on Cilicia, and he encamped on the verge of Cappadocia, not far from Taurus, at a town Cybistra, in order to defend Cilicia, and at the same time hold Cappadocia ( (21.82)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *x, entry xi/qos
   cilicia, (also written (21.63)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter N
   Suidas (s. v.) mentions another sophist, a native of Myrae in Cilicia, and a pupil of Lachares, who taught at Constantinople, and was the author of a (19.00)

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2 from Peachum's Garden of Eloquence

1. Henry Peachum., The Garden of Eloquence (1593): Schemas part Schemates Rhetorical, subpart The first order, section Figures of Conjunction, subsection Homeoptoton
   Homeoptoton of the Latines is called Similiter cadens, and it is a figure which endeth diverse clauses with like cases, but in respect of the English tongue which is not varied by cases, we may call it setting of diverse nownes in one sentence which ende alike with the same letter or same syllable: thus, He came into Cilicia, and then spied out Africa: and after that came with his armie into Sardinia. (2.71)

2. Henry Peachum., The Garden of Eloquence (1593): Schemas part Schemates Rhetorical, subpart The third order, section Collectio, subsection Brachiepia
   Cicero for Manlius: How speedilie Pompeius being Captain failed with vehemencie of war, who entred into Cilicia, spied out Africa from thence came with his Navie into Sardinia. (2.04)

6 from Renaissance Materials

1. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Tharsus
   Tharsus (M. Edd. mostly Tarsus) name of a town (Tarsus in Cilicia? (10.19)

2. M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background
   Caesar. [He] had with him to ayde him these kinges and subjects following: Bocchus king of Lybia, Tarcondemus king of high Cilicia, Archelaus king of Cappadocia, Philadelphus king of Paphlagonia, Mithridates king of Comagena, and Adallas king of Thracia. (5.06)

3. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Cilicia
   Cilicia, country in Asia Minor: . (4.33)

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7 from The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra

1. Appendices
   Ant. He was my Lord,
   And was, beside, too great for me to rival,
   But, I deserv'd you first, though he enjoy'd you
   When, after, I beheld you in Cilicia,
   An Enemy to Rome, I pardon'd you.
   (4.93)

2. Appendices section SOURCE OF THE PLOT, subsection Plutarch
   Vnto whom, to welcome her, he gaue no trifling things: but vnto that she had already, he added the prouinces of Phœnicia, those of the nethermost Syria, the Ile of Cyprvs, and a great part of Cilicia, and that countrey of Ivry, where the true balme is, and that part of Arabia where the Nabatheians doe dwell, which stretcheth out towardes the Ocean. (3.17)

3. Appendices
   Alex. I saw him in Cilicia first,
   When Cleopatra there met Antony:
   A mortal he was to us, and Ægypt.
   (2.86)

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2 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter B, entry 2373
   explorer and archæologist; educated at Repton school and Wadham College, Oxford; B.A., 1875; entered Lincoln's Inn, 1874; travelled abroad; studied local traditions and customs in Karpathos, Samos, and Thasos, 1885-7, and engaged in archæological research on coast of Asia Minor, 1888-9, Bahrein Islands, 1889, Cilicia Tracheia, 1890, Mashonaland, 1891, Abyssinia, 1893, and the Arabian peninsula, 1893-7; published works relating to his travels. (5.19)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter T, entry 30253
   ), archbishop of Canterbury; native of Tarsus in Cilicia; studied at Athens; well versed in literature, and Greek and Latin, and called the ‘philosopher’; while a monk at Rome was consecrated by Pope Vitalian archbishop of Canterbury, 668; arrived at Canterbury, 669; made a tour throughout the island; imposed the Roman order and was the first archbishop to whom the whole English church agreed in submitting; together with Hadrian, now made abbot of St. Augustine's, founded a school of learning at Canterbury; held a synod at Hertford, 673, which was the first time that the English church acted as one body; subdivided many of the dioceses, before conterminous with the kingdoms, and created many new bishoprics; separated the diocese of Wilfrid (the country north of the Humber) into four (afterwards five) dioceses, and appointed bishops to them, Wilfrid being left the see of York, on which Wilfrid, having appealed to Rome, was authorised by Pope Agatho to expel the new bishops and appoint his own; made peace between Egfrid of Northumbria and Ethelred of Mercia, 679; divided Mercia into five dioceses; held a synod at Hatfield, 680, to declare orthodoxy of the English church; reconciled to Wilfrid, 686; a great organiser, the effects of his work existing to the present day; gave the church unity and order, his autocratic spirit, however, leading him into unfair treatment of Wilfrid; never regarded by the monks as a saint; scholar, and author, at least in part, of the ‘Penitential,’ of considerable ecclesiastical and historical interest. [lvi. (2.71)

2 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Medical history of Michigan: Volume II page 382
   In all Cilicia to-day, there is hardly a living Armenian. (2.78)

2. Medical history of Michigan: Volume II page 380
   Sent by the American Women's Hospitals to the Near East, she traveled through Turkish territory to Marash in Cilicia, where in the mountain fastnesses remnants of the Armenian peoples, persecuted for centuries, pawns on the chessboard of European politics, had taken refuge. (1.99)

1 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. Rees Lloyd, The Richmond alarm; a plain and familiar discourse in the form of a dialogue between a father and his son; in three parts, page 115
   A glimpse of the gospel light, shone also into Persia, Tartary, China, and India, but it soon left these large countries and took its course westward, crossed the Archipelago or Ægean sea, and visited many islands about there, and it shone into the states of Greece in Europe; Dalmatia, Dacia, Macedonia, Thrace, Achaia, Crete, &c. It entered into Hungary, Bohemia, Italy, Poland, Germany, Venice, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, and to the Isles of Britain and Ireland, to Sardinia, Cilicia, and Corsica. (2.09)

4 from Beazley Archive

1. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 230268
   TURKEY, CILICIA, BUDRUM (5.76)

2. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 207161
   TURKEY, CILICIA, TARSUS (4.00)

3. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 45369
   TURKEY, CILICIA, KELENDERIS (3.43)

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