Cyprus
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in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
An island subdued in large part by the Greek fleet under Pausanias's command.
And they made an expedition against Cyprus, and subdued the greater part of it;
and while sailing off Salamis in Cyprus, they fought both by sea and land at the same time with the Phoenicians and Cilicians;
They, happening to be engaged in an expedition against Cyprus with two hundred ships of their own and of the allies, left Cyprus and came to him;
Hellenica
Island where the Athenian general Conon takes refuge with Euagoras after Aegospotami.
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.
After this Chabrias set out on a voyage to Cyprus to aid Euagoras, with eight hundred peltasts and ten triremes, to which force he had also added more ships and a body of hoplites obtained from Athens;
On the Mysteries
Place from which Andocides had come and where land was offered.
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?
The Histories
Island conquered by Amasis, who was the first to make it tributary to himself.
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.
The Cyprians did likewise of their own free will, all save the people of Amathus, for these too revolted from the Medes in such manner as I will show.
Odyssey
Island associated with Aphrodite, to which she withdraws after being freed from the chains.
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.
On His Return
The island from which a grain shipment to Athens was threatened by a plot, which Andocides claims to have frustrated.
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;
Stromata
Island where the Idaean Dactyls are said to have first found iron.
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.
Against Lacritus
City of origin for Antipater.
he was a Citian by birth.
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;
Against Leptines
Place where Chabrias set up trophies.
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 …
Philip’s Letter
Island associated with Evagoras in Philip's example of Athenian citizenship grants.
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.
Helen
Island destined by Apollo's oracle to be Teucer's new home, where he will found a new Salamis.
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
Iliad
An island whose king Cinyras gave Agamemnon his breastplate, reached by the report of the coming war.
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.
Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
Cyprus is Aphrodite's sacred island, linked to her temple, adornment, departure, and final praise.
Hail, goddess, queen of well-builded Cyprus!
She went to Cyprus, to Paphos, where her precinct is and fragrant altar, and passed into her sweet-smelling temple.
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.
Hymn 6 to Aphrodite
A sea-set island whose walled cities are presented as Aphrodite's domain.
I will sing of stately Aphrodite, gold-crowned and beautiful, whose dominion is the walled cities of all sea-set Cyprus.
Hymn 7 to Dionysus
A possible destination named by the master while imagining the captive's origins or route.
I reckon he is bound for Egypt or for Cyprus or to the Hyperboreans or further still.
The Rights of War and Peace
Island governed by Sergius Paulus, cited as the site of an early Christian ruler's conversion.
For it is not universally true, as Sergius Paulus, the deputy governor of Cyprus, had long before professed the Christian religion.
Antidosis
The island associated with Nicocles, the king addressed by Isocrates.
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.
Evagoras
Island and political region centered on Salamis, transformed and defended by Evagoras.
Evagoras, from private estate, made himself a sovereign:
for the result of his visit to Cyprus was that he both conferred and received most benefits.
But distrustful of the consequences of his measures and wishing to make his position secure, he reduced the city to barbarism, and brought the whole island into subservience to the Great King.
On the Peace
The island near which Athens lost a large fleet during the age of empire.
Two hundred ships which set sail for Egypt perished with their crews, and a hundred and fifty off the island of Cyprus;
Panegyricus
The island where a contemporary war between rebels and the Persian King is underway.
Are not Egypt and Cyprus in revolt against him?
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;
To Philip
A former Persian naval resource now unstable and potentially useful to Philip.
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;
Nemean
Mediterranean island ruled by the exiled Teucer and, in legend, by the wealthy king Cinyras.
such prosperity as once loaded Cinyras with wealth in sea-washed Cyprus.
Weave out, sweet lyre, right now, the beloved song with Lydian harmony, for Oenone and Cyprus, where Teucer the son of Telamon reigns far from home;
Pythian
The island homeland of the legendary king-priest Cinyras.
The voices of the men of Cyprus often shout the name of Cinyras, whom golden-haired Apollo gladly loved,
Cyropaedia
Island or region associated with voluntary participation and the western limit of Cyrus's empire.
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.
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.