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Cyrnus

Κύρνος

(Κύρνος), two mythical personages, from the one of whom the island of Cyrnus or Cyrne (Corsica) derived its name (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. 9.30; Hdt. 1.167), and the other was regarded as the founder of Cyrnus, a town in Caria. (Diod. 5.60.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.