Cytōrum
(
Κύτωρον). A city of Paphlagonia, on the coast between the
promontory Carambis and Amastris. It was a Greek town of great antiquity, since Homer alludes
to it (
Il. ii. 853), and it is thought to have been founded by a colony of
Milesians. According to Strabo, it had been a port of the inhabitants of Sinopé. In
its vicinity was a mountain, named Cytorus, which produced a beautifully veined species of
box-tree (
Catull. iv. 13;
Georg. ii. 437). It is now Kidros.