Cusae
Χοῦσαι
Cusae (Χοῦσαι, Aelian, H. An. 10.27; Κάσος or Ἀκούασα, Hierocles, p. 730), the modern Kusieh, was a town in the Lycopolite nome of the Thebaid. In the Notitia Imperii it is noted as the head-quarters of the Legio II. Constantia Thebaeorum. The goddess Aphrodite Ourania was held in especial reverence at Cusae under the symbol of a white cow. (Aelian, l.c.) At a later period it was an episcopal city. There appears to have been another town of this name in the Hermopolite nome of the Heptanomis.
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.