Cydas

(Κύδας), appears to have been a common name at Gortyna in Crete. It is written in various ways in MSS., but Cydas seems to be the most correct form. (See Drakenborch, ad Liv. 33.3, 44.13.)

1. The commander of 500 of the Cretan Gortynii, joined Quinctius Flamininus in Thessaly in B. C. 197. (Liv. 33.3.) This Cydas may be the same as the Cydas, the son of Antitalces, who was cosmus or supreme magistrate at Gortyna, when a Roman embassy visited the island about B. C. 184, and composed the differences which existed between the inhabitants of Gortyna and Cnossus. (Plb. 33.15.)

2. A Cretan, the friend of Eumenes, who attempted to negotiate a peace between Eumenes and Antiochus in n. 100.168 (Liv. 44.13, 24), may perhaps be the same as No. 1.

3. A native of Gortyna in Crete, a man of the most abandoned character, was appointed by Antony in B. C. 44 as one of the judices at Rome. (Cic. Phil. 5, 8.9.)