Cyprus

And they made an expedition against Cyprus, and subdued the greater part of it;

So the Athenians ceased from prosecuting the war in Greece, but made an expedition against Cyprus with two hundred ships of their own and of the allies, under the command of Cimon;

and while sailing off Salamis in Cyprus, they fought both by sea and land at the same time with the Phoenicians and Cilicians;

then he sailed away with eight ships to seek refuge with Euagoras in Cyprus, while the Paralus went to Athens with the tidings of what had happened.

and while sailing thither he fell in with Philocrates, the son of Ephialtes, sailing with ten triremes from Athens to Cyprus for the purpose of aiding Euagoras, and captured all ten.

King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia should belong to him, as well as Clazomenae and Cyprus among the islands, and that the other Greek cities, both small and great, should be left independent, except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros;

while if he returns to Cyprus whence he has come, an abundance of good land has been offered him and is his for the asking.

Why, I ask, did it never strike them that I was committing sacrilege during the three years which I have spent in Athens since my return from Cyprus?

Moreover, he was the first conqueror of Cyprus, which he made tributary to himself.

So the Cyprians, after winning freedom for a year, were enslaved once more.

Gorgus, after having lost his city, took refuge with the Medes, and Onesilus, now king of Salamis, persuaded all Cyprus to revolt with him, all save the Amathusians, who would not consent.

Thereon he loosed the bonds that bound them, and as soon as they were free they scampered off, Ares to Thrace and laughter-loving Aphrodite to Cyprus and to Paphos, where is her grove and her altar fragrant with burnt offerings.

Get out, into the open part of the court, or I will give you Egypt and Cyprus over again for your insolence and importunity;

as for myself, they gave me to a friend who met them, to take to Cyprus, Dmetor by name, son of Iasos, who was a great man in Cyprus.

I need not remind you, I imagine, how you received news that no grain was to be exported to Athens from Cyprus.

what I do wish you to know is that the ships on the point of putting in to the Peiraeus at this moment with a cargo of grain number no less than fourteen;

Celmis again and Damnameneus, the Idaean Dactyls, first found iron in Cyprus, and Delas, another Idaean, found the tempering of bronze, though Hesiod says it was a Scythian.

Apollonides of Halicarnassus deposes that to his knowledge Antipater, a Citian by birth, lent money to Hyblesius for a voyage to Pontus on the ship of which Hyblesius was in command, and on the freight to Pontus, and that he was himself part-owner of the ship with Hyblesius;

he was a Citian by birth.

How skilfully, as your commander, he drew up your ranks at Thebes to face the whole power of the Peloponnese, how he slew Gorgopas in Aegina, what trophies he set up in Cyprus and afterwards in Egypt, how he visited, I might almost say, every land, yet nowhere disgraced our city’s name or his own—of all these exploits it is by no means easy to speak adequately, and it would be a great shame if my …

However, if I may mention two instances to the exclusion of the rest, you gave your citizenship to Evagoras of Cyprus and to Dionysius of Syracuse, to them and their descendants.

how I should steer a favorable course to the island of Cyprus, where Apollo has declared I am to live, giving it the island name of

There had been a report [ kleos] abroad, reaching as far as Cyprus, that the Achaeans were about to sail for Troy, and therefore he gave it to the king.

And laughter-loving Aphrodite put on all her rich clothes, and when she had decked herself with gold, she left sweet-smelling Cyprus and went in haste towards Troy, swiftly travelling high up among the clouds.

She went to Cyprus, to Paphos, where her precinct is and fragrant altar, and passed into her sweet-smelling temple.

Hail, goddess, queen of well-builded Cyprus!

I will sing of stately Aphrodite, gold-crowned and beautiful, whose dominion is the walled cities of all sea-set Cyprus.

I reckon he is bound for Egypt or for Cyprus or to the Hyperboreans or further still.

For it is not universally true, as Sergius Paulus, the deputy governor of Cyprus, had long before professed the Christian religion.

The one which is about to be produced before you is addressed to Nicocles of Cyprus, who at that time was king, and is made up of advice to him as to how to rule over his people.

And Ajax was second to him in valor, and Teucer, who proved himself worthy of their kinship and inferior to none of the other heroes, after he had helped in the capture of Troy, went to Cyprus and founded Salamis, giving to it the name of his former native land;

but when he was forced to go to war, he proved so valiant, and had so valiant an ally in his son Pnytagoras, that he almost subdued the whole of Cyprus, ravaged Phoenicia, took Tyre by storm, caused Cilicia to revolt from the king, and slew so many of his enemies that many of the Persians, when they mourn over their sorrows, recall the valor of Evagoras.

for the result of his visit to Cyprus was that he both conferred and received most benefits.

Two hundred ships which set sail for Egypt perished with their crews, and a hundred and fifty off the island of Cyprus;

Even now, when the two armies are fighting in Cyprus, we permit him to make use of the one and to besiege the other, although both of them belong to Hellas;

Are not Egypt and Cyprus in revolt against him?

Furthermore, Cyprus and Phoenicia and Cilicia, and that region from which the barbarians used to recruit their fleet, belonged at that time to the King, but now they have either revolted from him or are so involved in war and its attendant ills that none of these peoples is of any use to him;

He sent out no Persians as satraps over Cilicia or Cyprus or Paphlagonia, because these he thought joined his expedition against Babylon voluntarily;

From that time on his empire was bounded on the east by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Black Sea, on the west by Cyprus and Egypt, and on the south by Ethiopia.

For it was bounded on the east by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Black Sea, on the west by Cyprus and Egypt, and on the south by Ethiopia.