Cyăne

, a nymph of Syracuse, to whom her father offered violence in a fit of drunkenne . She dragged her ravisher to the altar, where she sacrificed him, and killed herself to stop a pestilence, which, from that circumstance, had already begun to afflict the country. Plutarch , Parallel a minor a ――A nymph of Sicily, who endeavoured to a ist Proser pine when she was carried away by Pluto. The god changed her into a fountain now called Pisme , a few miles from Syracuse. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 5 , li. 112 .――A town of Lycia. Pliny , bk. 5 , ch. 27 .――An inn-keeper, . Juvenal , satire 8, li. 162 .