I. A Thracian people in the present Crimea, on both sides of the Dnieper, whose chief town was Cimmerium, Mel. 1, 19, 15; Plin. 6, 6, 5, § 17; 6, 13, 14, § 35.— Hence,
B. Adj.
II. A fabulous people supposed to have dwelt in caves, between Baiœ and Cumœ, Fest. p. 43, 4 sq.; cf. Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 61; Cic. Ac. 2, 19, 61; Sil. 12, 132; “perpetual darkness prevailed among them,” Tib. 4, 1, 64; Val. Fl. 3, 398; “here Somnus had his abode,” Ov. M. 11, 592 sq.—Poet., the Lower World: “Cimmerii lacus,” Tib. 3, 5, 24; cf. Verg. Cul. 230; v. Lidd. and Scott, under Κιμμέριοι.
