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Cisthēné

（Κισθήνη).

1.

A mythical plain mentioned in the Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus (v. 799) as the abode of the Gorgons.

2.

A town on the coast of Mysia.

3.

A town on the coast of Lycia.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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