Cyme
place · 4 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
high city of Cyme · lovely maiden
in the texts
The Histories
An Aeolian city where Pactyes takes refuge and whose citizens twice consult the Branchidae oracle about surrendering him.
After this, he sent messengers to Cyme demanding that Pactyes be surrendered.
But Pactyes, learning that an army sent against him was approaching, was frightened and fled to Cyme.
The men of Cyme, then, sent to Branchidae to inquire of the shrine what they should do in the matter of Pactyes that would be most pleasing to the gods;
Epigrams
A city near Sardene and the Hermus, addressed by the speaker and later rejected as a place to remain.
My dear limbs yearn not to stay in the sacred streets of Cyme, but rather my great heart urges me to go unto another country, small though I am.
Have reverence for him who needs a home and stranger’s dole, all ye who dwell in the high city of Cyme, the lovely maiden, hard by the foothills of lofty Sardene, ye who drink the heavenly water of the divine stream, eddying Hermus, whom deathless Zeus begot.
Cyropaedia
A coastal place near Larissa and Cyllene.
and Cyrus gave them cities, some in the interior, which even to this day are called Egyptian cities, and besides these Larissa and Cyllene near Cyme on the coast;
Hellenica
A city in Asia Minor near whose plain Agesilaus is encamped when he receives authority over the fleet in addition to the army.
And when he was in the plain which is above Cyme, orders came to him from the authorities at home to exercise command as he thought best over the fleet also, and to appoint as admiral whomsoever he wished.