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CHRYSA

Volume 4 · 40 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), a town of Mysia, on the finus Adramytteneus; extinct in Pliny's time: it had a temple of Apollo Smithesus (Homer, Strabo). The country of the fair Chryseis, who gave first rise to the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles.