Cyzicus

American  

[siz-i-kuhs] / ˈsɪz ɪ kəs /

noun

1. an ancient city in NW Asia Minor, in Mysia, on a peninsula in the Sea of Marmara.

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Cyzicus British  

/ ˈsɪzɪkəs /

noun

1. an ancient Greek colony in NW Asia Minor on the S shore of the Sea of Marmara: site of Alcibiades' naval victory over the Peloponnesians (410 _bc )

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Example Sentences

Where the marble steps of the Ecumenical palace go down to the waters of the Bosphorus, he was met by the Metropolitans of Nicaea and of Cyzicus.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Cyzicus was thus opened to him, Procopius hastened thither, and pardoned all who had opposed him, except Serenianus, whom he put in irons, and sent to Nicæa, to be kept in close confinement.

From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Yonge, Charles Duke

He visited many seats of sacred healing—Smyrna, Pergamum, Cyzicus, Epidaurus—and, often in a cataleptic state, between sleep and waking, he had visitations of the Higher Powers in dreams.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

Among the number is said to have been even Germanus, then archbishop of Cyzicus, and afterwards, as patriarch of Constantinople, a firm defender of the faith.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.

Also in Cyzicus, according to Strabo XIII. p.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried