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CITIUM

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CETIUM, or Cittium, in Ancient Geography, a town of Cyprus, situated in the south of the island, famous for the birth of Zeno, author of the sect called Stoics; distant two hundred stadia to the west of Salamis (Diodorus Siculus). A colony of Phenicians, called Chetim: And hence it is that not only Cyprus, but the other islands and many maritime places, are called Chetim by the Hebrews; now called Chiti.