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Cydnus

[ sid-nuhs ]

noun

  1. a river in SE Asia Minor, in Cilicia.


Cydnus

/ ˈsɪdnəs /

noun

  1. See Tarsus
    the ancient name for the (River) Tarsus


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But he was afterwards seized again and thrown into the river Cydnus, from which he hardly escaped with his life, and was baptized.

She then calls for her diadem, her robes of state, and attires herself as if "again for Cydnus, to meet Mark Antony."

Antony was at Tarsus, a city upon the Cydnus, a small distance above its mouth.

But the reader will doubtless be pleased to compare the noted descriptions of the voyage of Cleopatra down the Cydnus.

They are said to have thrown him into the river Cydnus, and he is supposed to have escaped death only by a miracle.

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