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CINNAMUS

Volume 17 · 89 words · 1810 Edition

Greek historian, wrote a history of the eastern empire, during the reigns of John and Manuel Comnenes, from 1118 to 1143. His style is reckoned the best of the modern Greek authors. He died after 1187.

Cinnereth, Cinereth, Chinnereth, (Moses); or Gennefaret, in Ancient Geography, a lake of the Lower Galilee, called the Sea of Galilee, (Matthew); of Tiberius, (John). Its name Gennefaret is from a small cognominal district upon it. In breadth 40 stadia, in length 140. The water fresh and fit to drink, and abounding in fish.