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CYCINNIS

Volume 17 · 61 words · 1810 Edition

a Grecian dance, so called from the name of its inventor, one of the satyrs belonging to Bacchus. It consisted of a combination of grave and gay movements.

CYCLADES INSULAE; islands anciently so called, as Pliny informs us, from the cyclos or orb in which they lie; beginning from the promontory Geræolum of Eubœa, and lying round the island Delos, (Pliny).