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15 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *o, entry o)fi^ou=ssa
   Serpent-island, a name of Cythnos, ; of Rhodes, ; of an island SW. of Majorca, ; of various islands, St.Byz.s.v. (25.43)

2. Charles Short, Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary alphabetic letter C, entry Cythno^s
   a, um, adj., of Cythnos, Cythnian: (23.53)

3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter C
   In the northern he places Ceos, Helena, Cythnos, Seriphos, Siphnos, Paros, Naxos, Delos, Rhene, Scyros (an error probably of the transcriber, for Syros), Myconos, Tenos, Andros. (13.29)

4. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter T
   3), is said by Quintilian (ii. 13) to have been a native of Cythnos, but Eustathius (ad Il. xxiv. 163, p. 1343. 60) makes him a Sicyonian : these testimonies may be reconciled by supposing him to have been a native of Cythnos, and to have belonged to the Sicyonian school of painting. (10.72)

5. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter S
   Serpho), an island in the Aegaean sea, and one of the Cyclades, lying between Cythnos and Siphnos. (8.12)

6. Strabo, Geography book 10, chapter 5, section 3
   At any rate, Artemidorus enumerates fifteen, after saying of Helena that it stretches parallel to the coast from Thoricus to Sunium and is a long island, about sixty stadia in length; for it is from Helena, he says, that the Cyclades, as they are called, begin; and he names Ceos, the island nearest to Helena, and, after this island, Cythnos and Seriphos and Melos and Siphnos and Cimolos and Prepesinthos and Oliaros, and, in addition to these, Paros, Naxos, Syros, Myconos, Tenos, Andros, and Gyaros. (6.10)

7. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter C
   According to Strabo (x. p. 485) they were originally only twelve in number; namely, Ceos, Cythnos, Seriphos, Melos, Siphnos, Cimolos, Paros, Naxos, Syros, Myconos, Tenos, Andros. (5.79)

8. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter C
   Mela (ii. 7), probably only through inadvertence, omits Ceos, and names Sicinos instead of Cythnos. (5.50)

9. J. Wells, W. W. How, A Commentary on Herodotus book 8, chapter 42, section 1
   There were fifty-four more ships at Salamis than at Artemisium, and nine new states (Hermione, Ambracia, Leucas, Naxos, Cythnos, Seriphos, Siphnos, Melos, Croton) were represented, while only one, Opuntian Locris, has meanwhile gone over to the enemy (Macan). (5.50)

10. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter C
    Accordingly the twelve, taking them in a circle from the NW. are; Ceos, Cythnos, Seriphos, Siphnos, Paros, Naxos, Delos, Rheneia, Myconos, Syros, Tenos, Andros. (5.22)

11. J. Wells, W. W. How, A Commentary on Herodotus book 8, chapter 46, section 4
    Ceos, Cythnos, Seriphos, Siphnos, and Melos are the most western Cyclades nearest Greece. (5.09)

12. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter G
    The other diverges to the south-east, passing through Phocis, Boeotia, and Attica, under the names of Parnassus, Helicon, Cithaeron, and Hymettus, down to Sunium, the southernmost point of Attica; but even here it does not end, for the islands of Ceos, Cythnos, Seriphos and Siphnos may be regarded as a continuance of this chain. (5.09)

13. Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (eds. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A., John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S.) book 4, chapter 22
    The other islands are, Myconos, with the mountain of Dimastus, distant from Delos fifteen miles; Siphnus, formerly called Meropia and Acis, twenty-eight miles in circumference; Seriphus, twelve miles in circuit; Prepesinthus; Cythnos; and then, by far the most famous among the Cyclades, and lying in the very middle of them, Delos itself; so famous for its temple of Apollo, and its extensive commerce. (4.96)

14. J. Wells, W. W. How, A Commentary on Herodotus book 8, chapter 66, section 2
    Ceos, Naxos, Cythnos, Seriphos, Siphnos, Melos. (4.47)

15. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter C
    These, as we learn from Artemidorus, were Ceos, Cythnos, Seriphos, Melos, Siphnos, Cimolos, Prepesinthos, Olearos, Paros, Naxos, Syros, Myconos, Tenos, Andros, and Gyaros, which last, however, Strabo himself was desirous of excluding, from its being a mere rock, as also Prepesinthos and Olearos. (4.35)