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1. Cytis, is, f., an island at the entrance of the Arabian Gulf, producing chrysolite; now Perim, Plin. 6, 29, 34, § 170.

2. cytis, is, f., = κύτις, an unknown precious stone, Plin. 37, 10, 56, § 154.

Cytĭsōrus, i, m., = Κυτίσσωρος, son of Phrixus, and founder of Cytorus, Mel. 1, 19, 8; Val. Fl. 5, 463.

cytĭsus, i, comm. (cytĭsum, i, n., Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 17; 2, 2, 19), = κύτισος, a shrubby kind of clover much valued by the ancients, perh. the shrubby snail-clover: Medicago arborea, Linn.; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 17; Col. 5, 12: Plin. 13, 24, 47, § 130; Verg. E. 1, 79; 2, 64 al.