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Sicyon

American  
[sish-ee-on, sis-] / ˈsɪʃ iˌɒn, ˈsɪs- /

noun

  1. an ancient city in S Greece, near Corinth.


Sicyon British  
/ ˈsɪsɪˌɒn, ˈsɪsɪən /

noun

  1. an ancient city in S Greece, in the NE Peloponnese near Corinth: declined after 146 bc

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Peter Pan, three months old, one of six children, son of Prides Hill Sicyon and Lady Babbie, bids fair to become Presidential hound.

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And accordingly these wines are of the greatest use at Athens and Sicyon, because the waters in those cities are harsh.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

EUTYCHIDES, of Sicyon in Achaea, Greek sculptor of the latter part of the 4th century B.C., was a pupil of Lysippus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various

And Menæchmus gives a similar account in his History of the affairs of Sicyon, and says that there are some slaves called Catonacophori, who very much resemble the Epeunacti.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

In addition to researches at Sicyon, Plataea, Eretria and elsewhere, it has undertaken two works of capital importance—the excavation of the Argive Heraeum and of ancient Corinth.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

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