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CAYSTER

Volume 5 · 65 words · 1810 Edition

or CAYSTRUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Ionia, whose mouth Ptolemy places between Colophon and Ephesus; commended by the poets for its swans, which it had in great numbers. Its source was in the Montes Cilbiani, (Pliny). Caystrus Campus was a part of the territory of Ephesus. Campi Cazibiani of Lydia were plains lying in the middle between the inland parts and Mount Tmolus.