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Cyparissus

（Κυπάρισσος).

1.

Son of Telephus, who, having inadvertently killed his favorite stag, was seized with immoderate grief and metamorphosed into a cypress.

2.

A small town in Phocis on Parnassus, near Delphi.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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