Cicones
Κίκονες
Eth. Cicones (Κίκονες), a Thracian people inhabiting the coast district between the rivers Hebrus in the E. and Lissus in the W., where they appear to have lived from very remote times. (Hom. Il. 2.846, Od. 4.39; Hdt. 7.59,110; Orph. Arg. 77; Steph. Byz. s. v. Μαρώνεια; Mela, 2.2, 8; Plin. Nat. 4.18; Verg. G. 4.520; Sil. Ital. 11.477; Ov. Met. 10.2, 15.313.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.