. ntiers of Phocis and Locris,from which the N. Locrians were called Epi- cnemidii. A branch of these mountains runsout into the sea, forming the promontoryCnemldes (KvyifuSes), with a town of the samename upon it, opposite the promontoryCenaeum in Euboea. (Strab. pp. 416, 426.) Cnemus (Kvrinos), Spartan admiral in , when he made a descent upon the following year he operated withoutsuccess against Phormio. ( 66, 80.) Cnidus or Gnidus (KiaSos-: KviSios: Ru. atCape Krio), a celebrated city of Asia Minor,on t
. ntiers of Phocis and Locris,from which the N. Locrians were called Epi- cnemidii. A branch of these mountains runsout into the sea, forming the promontoryCnemldes (KvyifuSes), with a town of the samename upon it, opposite the promontoryCenaeum in Euboea. (Strab. pp. 416, 426.) Cnemus (Kvrinos), Spartan admiral in , when he made a descent upon the following year he operated withoutsuccess against Phormio. ( 66, 80.) Cnidus or Gnidus (KiaSos-: KviSios: Ru. atCape Krio), a celebrated city of Asia Minor,on the promontory of Triopium on the coastof Caria, was a Lacedaemonian colony, andthe chief city of the Dorian Hexapolis. Itwas built partly on the mainland and partlyon an island joined to the coast by a cause-way, and had two harbours. It had a con-siderable commerce; and it was resorted toby travellers from all parts of the civilisedworld, that they might see the statue ofAphrodite by Praxiteles, which stood in hertemple here. The city possessed also temples. Harbour and ruins of Cnidus. of Apollo and Poseidon. The great navaldefeat of Pisander by Conon ( 394) tookplace off Cnidus. Pliny mentions it as a freecity (v. 104). Among the celebrated nativesof the city were Ctesias, Eudoxus, Sostratus,and Agatharchides. It is said to have beenalso called, at an early period, Triopia, fromits founder Triopas, and, in later times,Stadia. (Strab. p. 656; Paus. v. 24, 7, , x. 11.) Cnosus or Gnosus, subsequently Cnossus orGnossus (Kvaicos, Tvwaos, Kvoxrcrds, Tvutrcros :Kvdxrios, Kvuaffios: Makro Teikho), an an-cient town of Crete, and the capital of kingMinos, was situated in a fertile country on theriver Caeratus (which was originally the nameof the town), at a short distance from theN. coast. It was at an early time colonised
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