the name of several kings of Bithynia.

town of Bithynia, anciently called Cissus, from a cognominal river, and giving name to the Sinus Cissus of the Propontis; rebuilt by Prusias the son of Zela, after having been destroyed by Philip, the son of Demetrius: it stood on the Sinus Cissus, at the foot of mount Arganthonius. This is the Prusias who harboured Hannibal, after the defeat of Antiochus.—Of this place was Asclepiades, surnamed Prusias, the famous physician.