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  • "Periander, son of Cypselus, had sent three hundred youths of the noblest young men of the Corcyraeans to Alyattes, at Sardis; for the purpose of emasculation."

    Satyricon 2007

  • Very large flocks of swifts (‘Cypselus apus’) were observed flying over the plains north of Kuruman.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • Periander remitted him to Chersias for answer, as a person better versed in these matters for he was present when Cypselus consecrated the shrine.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Nicias did, who defrayed the charges of the solemnity in the name of the Athenians at Delos the Athenians themselves at Delphi; and before these, Cypselus the Corinthian.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Nicias did, who defrayed the charges of the solemnity in the name of the Athenians at Delos the Athenians themselves at Delphi; and before these, Cypselus the Corinthian.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • Hippias from Sigeum, and bring him back to Athens; but that they were opposed by the Corinthians, Sosicles telling them how much the city of Corinth had suffered under the tyranny of Cypselus and

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Cypselus, just as it is said that Orontes the Persian bore a great resemblance to Alcmaeon the son of Amphiaraus, and that

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Gorgilus; she had previously been the wife of Archinus of Ambracia, one of the descendants of Cypselus.

    The Athenian Constitution 2002

  • Gorgilus; she had previously been the wife of Archinus of Ambracia, one of the descendants of Cypselus.

    The Athenian Constitution 2002

  • Cypselidae at Corinth, which lasted seventy-three years and six months: Cypselus reigned thirty years, Periander forty and a half, and Psammetichus the son of Gorgus three.

    Politics Aristotle 2002

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