Cilla
- a town in Troas, distinguished for the worship of Apollo, Plin. 5, 30, 32, § 122; Sen. Troad. 227; acc. Cillan. Ov. M. 13, 174 (cf. Hom.Il. 1, 38).
(Κίλλα), a daughter of Laomedon and Placia or Leucippe, and a sister of Priam. At the time when Hecabe was pregnant with Paris, the seer Aesacus declared that mother and child must be put to death in order to avert a great calamity; but Priam, who referred this prophetic declaration to Cilla and her son Menippus by Thymoetus, made them suffer instead of Hecabe and Paris. (Apollod. 3.12.8; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 224.) [L.S]
CILLA (Κίλλα; Eth. Κιλλαῖος), a town of Mysia, mentioned in the Iliad (1.36), with Chryse and Tenedus. Herodotus (Hdt. 1.149) enumerates Cilia among the eleven old Aeolian cities of Asia. Strabo (p. 612) places Cilia in the Adramyttene: he says, near to Thebe is now a place named Cilia, where the temple of Apollo Cillaeus is; there flows by it the river Cillos which comes from Ida; both Chrysa [CHRYSA] and Cilia are near Antandrus; also the hill Cillaeum in Lesbos derived its name from this Cilla; and there is a mountain Cillaeum between Gargara and Antandrus; Daes of Colonae says that the temple of Apollo Cillaeus was first built at Colonae by the Aeolians, who came from Hellas; and they say that a temple of Apollo Cillaeus was also built at Chrysa, but it is uncertain whether this Apollo was the same as Smintheus, or another.T his river Cillos is said to be called Zellete or Zikeli, according to some authorities.
[G.L](Κίλλα). A small town in the Troad, celebrated for its temple of Apollo, surnamed Cillaeus.
- Hdt. 1.149
- Apollod. 3.12.3