Cinyps

Reading notes

• Letters from the Black Sea §2.7 the Cinyphian harvest

  The Cinyps, a river of Libya in a region proverbial for fertility; counting its ears of grain is one of Ovid's impossibilities for numbering his woes.

• Ibis §7 Cinyphian

  From the Cinyps, a river of Libya; the squalid African ground on which Ibis is imagined born.

• Metamorphoses §5.100 the Cinyps

  A river and district of Libya; the warrior Pelates is called 'of the Cinyps.'