in Botany, a name given by the ancient Greeks to a plant with which they used to dye woollen stuffs yellow, and with which the women of those times used also to tinge the hair yellow, which was then the favourite colour. The cyrene of the Greeks is evidently the same plant with the lutea herba of the Latins, or what is now called dyers weed.

CYNÆGIRUS, an Athenian, celebrated for his extraordinary courage. He was the brother of the poet Aschylus. After the battle of Marathon he pursued the flying Persians to their ships, and seized one of their vessels with his right hand, which was immediately severed by the enemy; upon which he seized the vessel with his left hand; and when he had lost that also, he still held on with his teeth.