Cerăsus

(untis), now Keresoun , a maritime city of Cappadocia, from which cherries were first brought to Rome by Lucullus. Mar cell in us , bk. 22 , ch. 13 .— Pliny , bk. 15 , ch. 25 ; bk. 16 , ch. 18 ; bk. 17 , ch. 14 .— Mela , bk. 1 , ch. 19 .――Another, built by a Greek colony from Sinope. Diodorus , bk. 14 .