Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Cydnus

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Cydnus

（Κύδνος). A river of Cilicia Campestris, rising in the Taurus and flowing through the midst of the city of Tarsus. It was celebrated for the coldness of its waters, in bathing in which Alexander the Great nearly lost his life (Plut. Alex. 19).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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