a place in the suburbs of Athens, named from a white or swift dog, who snatched away part of the sacrifice offering to Hercules. It had a gymnasium, in which strangers or those of the half-blood performed their exercises; the case of Hercules, to whom the place was consecrated. It had also a court of judicature, to try illegitimacy, and to examine whether persons were Athenians of the whole or half blood. Here Antilochus set up a new sect of philosophers called Cynics, either from the place, or from the snarling or the impudent disposition of that sect.

CYNOSCEPHALÆ, in Ancient Geography, a place in Thessaly near Scotussa; where the Romans, under Q. Flaminius, gained a great victory over Philip, son of Demetrius king of Macedon. These Cynocephalæ... Cynosema phalae are small tops of several equal eminences; named from their resemblance to dogs' heads, according to Plutarch.

Cynossema, the tomb of Hecuba, on the promontory Malusia, over against Sigium, in the south of the Chersonesus Thracica; named either from the figure of a dog, to which she was changed, or from her sad reverse of fortune (Pliny, Mela).