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CYLLENE (mod. Ziria)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 690 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CYLLENE (mod. Ziria)  , a mountain in
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Greece, in the N.E. of
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Arcadia (7789 ft.) . It was specially sacred to Hermes, who was born in a cave on the mountain, and had a temple and an ancient statue on its
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summit . The name Cyllene belongs also to an ancient
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port
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town in Elis, and, owing to doubtful identification with this, to a
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modern port at Glarentza, and also to some
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mineral
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baths a little to the south of it .

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