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Massicytes

Massicytes, MASSYCITES, or MASSICYTUS (Μασσίκυτος), a mountain range traversing western Lycia from north to south, issuing in the north, near Nysa, from Mount Taurus, and running almost parallel to the river Xanthus, though in the south it turns a little to the east. (Ptol. 5.3.1; Plin. Nat. 5.28; Quint. Smyrn. 3.232.).

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.