Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Cerăsus

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Cerăsus

（Κερασοῦς). A flourishing colony of Sinopé on the coast of Pontus, at the mouth of a river of the same name; chiefly celebrated as the place from which Europe obtained both the cherry and its name (cerasum). Lucullus is said to have brought back plants of the cherry-tree (κέρασος) with him to Rome ( Orig. xvii. 7, 16); but this refers probably only to some particular sorts, as the Romans seem to have had the tree much earlier. Cerasus fell into decay after the foundation of Pharnacia.

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

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