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{{Short description|Town of Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly}}
'''Cyphus''' or '''Kyphos''' ({{langx|grc|Κύφος}}) was a town of [[Perrhaebia]] in [[ancient Thessaly]], which, according to [[Homer|Homer's]] [[Catalogue of Ships]] in the ''[[Iliad]]'', supplied 22 ships for the [[Trojan War]].<ref>{{Cite Iliad|2.748}}</ref> It is placed by [[Strabo]] at the foot of [[Mount Olympus]].<ref>{{Cite Strabo|ix. p.441}}</ref> According to [[Stephanus of Byzantium]],<ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v.''}}</ref> there were two cities of the name of Cyphus, one mentioned by Homer, and the other by [[Lycophron]];<ref>Lycophr. 897.</ref> but in this he appears to have been mistaken.<ref>{{Cite DGRG|title=Cyphus}}</ref>
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