CYCEON (from κείνω, to mix or mingle), a name given by the ancient poets and physicians to a mixture of meal and water, and sometimes of other ingredients. The coarser kind consisted of water and meal alone; the richer and more delicate was composed of wine, honey, flour, water, and grated cheese. Homer, in the eleventh book of the Iliad, speaks of cyceon made of cheese and the meal of barley mixed with wine, without mention either of honey or water; and Ovid, describing the draught of cyceon given by the old woman of Athens to Ceres, mentions only flour and water. Dioscorides extols the simpler kind, pronouncing it, when prepared with water alone, to be highly refreshing and nutritious.