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CYTHERA

Volume 7 · 52 words · 1815 Edition

-orum, in Ancient Geography, an island opposite to Malla, a promontory, and to Boeotia town of Laconia; with a cognominal town, which has an excellent port called Scandea. The island was sacred to Venus, with a very ancient temple of that goddess exhibited in armour at Cythera, as in Cyprus: now Cerigo.