Cynosura
Κυνόσουπρα
Cynosura (Κυνόσουπρα), i. e. Dog's Tail.
1.
A promontory of Attica. [MARATHON]
2.
A promontory in the west of Salamis, opposite the island of Psyttaleia. (Hdt. 8.76.)
3.
A quarter of Sparta. [SPARTA]
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.