CISTHE´NE(Κισθήνη).
1. A town on the coast of Mysia, deserted in Strabo's time (p. 606). It lay outside of the bay of Adramyttium and the promontory Pyrrha. It had a port. Cisthene was north of Atarneus. It is mentioned by Mela (1.18) and Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.30).
The Gorgoneian plains of Cisthene (Aesch. Prom. Vinct. 5.795) are unknown.
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