Cytheris

• a mistress of Antonius (Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 2; id. Att. 10, 10, 5 al.), who is sarcastically called Cythērĭus, Cic. Att. 15, 22 fin.; Plin. 8, 16, 21, § 55.

a celebrated courtesan of the time of Cicero, Antony, and Gallus. She was originally the freedwoman and mistress of Volumnius Eutrapelus, and subsequently she became connected in the same capacity with Antony, and with Gallus the poet, to whom, however, she did not remain faithful. Gallus mentioned her in his poems under the name of Lycoris, by which name she is spoken of also by the Scholiast Cruquius on Horace. (Sat. 1.2. 55, 10. 77; comp. Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. 10.1; Cic. Phil. 2.24, ad Att. 10.10, 16, ad Fam. 9.26; Plut. Ant. 9; Plin. H. N. viii 16.) [L.S]

A celebrated courtesan at Rome, the mistress of M. Antonius, and afterwards of the poet Gallus , the friend of Vergil, who in the Tenth Eclogue speaks of her as Lycoris.