Cressa

1 Cressa, (14) æ, f. , Crétoise, de Crète : Cressa genus Virg. En. 5, 285, Crétoise de race || la Crétoise (Ariane) : Ov. Am. 1, 7, 16 || [adj^t ] Cressa pharetra Virg. G. 3, 345, carquois crétois ; Cressa nota Hor. O. 1, 36, 10, marque de Crète [à la craie] ; Cressæ herbæ Prop. 2, 1, 61, les plantes de la Crète.

2 Cressa, (14) æ, f. , port de Carie : Plin. 5, 104.

cressa, ae. f.
某海島女。 Nota cressa 吉先兆。

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Crēssa adj.

• f, Κρῆσσα, of Crete, Cretan, V.—As subst, a Cretan woman. O., Iu.—Of pipeclay: nota, made with chalk, i. e. of a lucky day, H.

CRESSA

CRESSA (Κρῆσσα: Eth. Κρησσαῖος).

1.

According to Stephanus (s. v.) a city of Paphlagonia, founded by Meriones after the war of Troy. Zeilas, the son of Nicomedes, took it. Cramer (Asia Minor, vol. 1. p. 241), says, that it was probably on the sea coast, and perhaps should be identified with Carussa.B ut there is no foundation for this guess. [CARUSA]

2.

There is a Cressa on the coast of Caria, which Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.27) calls Cressa Portus, and places 20 M.P. from Rhodus. It is also mentioned by Ptolemy (Ptol. 5.2). Leake (Asia Minor, p. 222) says that the excellent harbour of Cressa is now called Aplothíka by the Greeks, and Porto Cavaliere by the Italians; and on its western shore are the ruins of an Hellenic fortress and town, which are undoubtedly those of Loryma.[ G.L]

CRESSA

CRESSA [CRISSA]

Cressa

“The Cretan woman”; a term used by Ovid of Ariadné (Am. i. 7, 16) and of Aeropé (A. A. i. 327).