a tyrant of Corinth, and father of the more renowned Periander, flourished about the middle of the seventh century B.C. It had been foretold by the Delphic oracle that he would prove formidable to the reigning family, who accordingly despatched officers to destroy the child as soon as he should be born. His mother, however, concealed him in a chest, from the Greek word for which (cypselē) the boy derived his name. This chest was ever after preserved with peculiar care by the descendants of Cypselus. A minute description of it is given in Pausanias (v. 17). See Corinth.