(anc. geog.), a town at the mouth of the Palus Maeotis; from which the Bosphorus Cimmerius is named; that strait which joins the Euxine and the Palus Maeotis. *Cimmerii* was the name of the people, (Homer); and here stood the Promontorium Cimmerium, (Ptolemy); and hence probably the modern appellation *Crim*.

(anc. geog.), a place near Baiae, in Campania, where formerly stood the cave of the fibyl. The people were called *Cimmerii*; who living in subterranean habitations, from which they issued in the night to commit robberies and other acts of violence, never saw the light of the sun (Homer). To give a natural account of this tale, Festus says, there was a valley surrounded with a pretty high ridge, which precluded the morning and evening sun.