Cydon

and Cydonia , now Canea , a town of Crete, built by a colony from Samos. It was supposed that Minos generally resided there. Hence Cydoneus . Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 8 , li. 22 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 12 , li. 858 .— Silius Italic us , bk. 2 , li. 109 .— Livy , bk. 37 , ch. 60 .— Lucan , bk. 7 , li. 229 .