Cayster

, or Caystrus , now Kit check-Meinder , a rapid river of Asia, rising in Lydia, and, after a meandering course, falling into the Ægean sea near Ephesus. According to the poets, the banks and neighbourhood of this river were generally frequented by swans. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 2 , li. 253 ; bk. 5 , li. 386 .— Martial , bk. 1 , ltr. 54 .— Homer , Iliad , bk. 2 , li. 461 .— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 1 , li. 384 .