from σκεῖν, "to mix;" a name given by the ancient poets and physicians to a mixture of meal and water, and sometimes of other ingredients. These constituted the two kinds of cyceon; the coarser being of water and meal alone; the richer and more delicate composed of wine, honey, flour, water, and cheese. Homer, in the 11th Iliad, talks of cyceon made with cheese and the meal of barley mixed with wine, but without any mention either of honey or water; and Ovid, describing the draught of cyceon given by the old woman of Athens to Ceres, mentions only flour and water. Dioscorides understood the word in both these senses; but extolled it most in the coarse and simple kind: he says, when prepared with water alone, it refrigerates and nourishes greatly.

CYGINNIS, 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 INSULE: islands anciently so called, as Pliny informs us, from the cyclus or orb in which they lie; beginning from the promontory Gerestum of Euboea, and lying round the island Delos, (Pliny). Where they are, and what their number, is not so generally agreed. Strabo says, they were at first reckoned 12, but that many others were added: yet most of them lie to the south of Delos, and but few to the north; so that the middle or centre, ascribed to Delos, is to be taken in a loose, not a geometrical, sense. Strabo recites them after Artemidorus, as follows: Helena, Ceos, Cynthia, Seriphus, Melos, Siphnos, Cimolus, Prepesinthus, Olearus, Naxus, Parus, Syrus, Myconus, Tenus, Andrus, Gyarus; but he excludes from the number Prepesinthus, Olearus, and Gyarus.