Cypsĕlĭdes

, the name of three princes as descendants of Cypselus, who reigned at Corinth during 73 years. Cypselus was succeeded by his son Per i an der, who left his kingdom, after a reign of 40 years, to Cypselus  II. ♦ Cypsĕsus , a king of Arcadia, who married the daughter of Ctesiphon, to strengthen himself against the Heraclidæ. Pausanias , bk. 4 , ch. 3 .――A man of Corinth, son of Eetion and father of Per i an der. He destroyed the Bacchiadæ, and seized upon the sovereign power, about 659 years before Christ. He reigned 30 years, and was succeeded by his son. Per i an der had two sons, Lycophron and Cypselus, who was insane. Cypselus received his name from the Greek word κυψελος , a coffer , because when the Bacchiadæ attempted to kill him, his mother saved his life by concealing him in a coffer. Pausanias , bk. 5 , ch. 17 .— Cicero , Tusculanæ Dis put at i ones , bk. 5 , ch. 37 .— Hero dot us , bk. 1 , ch. 114 ; bk. 5 , ch. 92 , . — Aristotle , Politics .――The father of Miltiades. Hero dot us , bk. 6 , ch. 35 . ♦ ‘Cysĕsus’ replaced with ‘Cypsĕsus’